THE MIDDLE C OF LIFE
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

As we have seen so vividly in the events recorded throughout the world recently times and leaders change, Jesus Christ does not. Christ is the same all the time. He served faithfully yesterday; He serves faithfully today and He will remain faithful forever.

When Lloyd Douglas, author of The Robe and other novels, attended college, he lived in a boardinghouse. A retired, wheelchair-bound music professor resided on the first floor. Each morning Douglas would stick his head in the door of the teacher’s apartment and ask the same question, “Well, what’s the good news?” The old man would pick up his tuning fork; tap it on the side of the wheelchair, and say, “That’s middle C! It was middle C yesterday; it will be middle C tomorrow; it will be middle C a thousand years from now. The tenor upstairs sings flat. The piano across the hall is out of tune, but, my friend, that is middle C.”

Haven’t you had enough inconsistency and fluctuation in your life? Relationships change. Health changes. The weather changes. But the Lord God who rules the earth day by day and night by night is the same Jehovah who ruled the earth last night is the same Jehovah who rules it today.

He has the same convictions, same plans and same goals. He consistently displays the same love and is consistently in the same mood. He never changes. You can no more alter God than a pebble can alter the rhythm of an ocean. God is our middle C.

You and I need middle C.

We trust in Someone Who is unchanging.

He is our rock of stability in unstable times.

Aren’t you glad we don’t need to be blown about by the winds of circumstances?

Praise God! We never need to be “under the circumstances.”

Illustration from “A still point in a turning world.” (Max Lucado, Traveling Light.)