The World Changes. I Change. God Stays The Same. Thank You God!

AI Generated Transcript (I only fixed a few errors):

Good afternoon,

I just wanted to get some thoughts out of my head onto this audio blog. 

This is Jon Davis. 

I'm looking out my window at a kind of a gray spring day. Looks like it might be kind of windy out there. 

But I was just, I was just in a group of men that I hang out with sometimes, and we were talking about our lives. 

And one of the things that I was thinking about today, about my life and about what I've learned, and I'm almost embarrassed to share it because it's so basic, but hopefully it will bless somebody, is how, how much I change moment by moment, day by day, through the years. I'm changing, and that's good. It's not that that's bad, that's good. Or it can be bad.

But, but God doesn't change. God is reliable. God is the, God is the foundation. 

And this, this idea is kind of the basis or a basis for not basing your, your relationship with God or your faith based on how you're doing right now, or what's going on with you right now, or how you feel right now. 

Those are all real and valuable and good. But the unchanging factor is actually God. He's the unchanging factor. 

Like me, I, like just yesterday, I was kind of floating on a cloud of joy. I'm not even sure why. It was a beautiful day out. I'd had a great conversation with my brother that I found uplifting. I'd had a conversation with an old friend that I found very uplifting. I was getting things done on my to-do list, and I felt good about myself. And I felt good about God, and I felt good about the day, and I was just kind of on this cloud of joy. And I believe it was real joy from God, and it's a good thing. 

And then I, you know, had some trouble sleeping, and today I was a little bit discombobulated and tired. 

And, you know, I had a bunch of meetings, meetings that I want to go to, not the kind that you don't want to go to, but feeling like, you know, I don't know, discombobulated. 

And I, I can't help but notice how I feel different about myself, as if, and I translate that to God. I take how I feel about myself and translate to how God must feel about me. 

Yet he knew I was gonna be one way yesterday and another way today. And if you spread that out over time, he knew all the ways I would be more mature or wherever I'm at now versus how I was years ago. 

Has anything changed in the way he sees me, in the way he relates to me? Does he know who I am? 

So, basically what I'm contemplating is how I change, but God does not. So I need to put my focus on him. 

At my age now, I'm a lot older than I was when I was in my 20s, obviously. I can see, look at my own patterns over the years and see this, the constant wasn't me, it was God. I'm up, I'm up, I'm down, I'm over here, I'm over there, I'm, I'm growing, I'm changing, but God remains the same. So somehow I have to get my focus on him. 

And I can't, I can't help but notice like how, it's absurd, it doesn't make any sense, but if I've learned anything about human beings is we are, we are not only rational creatures. In fact, I don't think we're even primarily rational creatures. So this, this doesn't make any sense, but I, like, my circumstances caused me to have different feelings about myself. Sometimes there's things I did or didn't do that caused or didn't cause those circumstances, but sometimes I had nothing to do with it. 

You know, like there's been some times where I had like a lot, a lot of a financial blessing of some kind, one that I didn't earn, just a blessing, and I felt better about myself. Like somehow I'm better, even though I didn't do anything. 

If, if my ministry, I'm a, I teacher and preacher, if, if my ministry is having opportunities and they're growing and lots is happening and my fundraisers to do those opportunities are working, I feel like somehow I'm better. 

If they're not happening or I'm struggling or they're, you know, I'm struggling to get the finances to do them or maybe nobody's invited me for a while to speak or whatever it is, I feel bad. I feel down, like somehow I, so see me, see how I am up and down, I change, but that whole time God was the same. He didn't change. 

He still had a plan for me just as much. He still loved me just as much. He was still working in power just as much, including when I'm teaching and I don't feel the power versus I'm teaching and I do feel the power. 

So I know... basic kindergarten Christianity stuff here, but...hopefully somebody will be encouraged that remember how you felt yesterday versus how you feel today or how you feel a month ago versus how you feel tomorrow isn't what to be your rock. 

Go through those feelings because God made us beings that go through change and different feelings. But remember who the rock is. Look to God. Look to Jesus and see if maybe he can be a rock for you. 

I know he can if you will let him. 

God bless. 

Jon Davis signing off.