We took a trip this last weekend to Mississippi for a concert. Because it was over four hours away, we decided to get a hotel. For road trips the task of choosing a hotel has always fallen to me. Emily says it’s because I’m bougie. I say it’s because it’s because I don’t want to find a cockroach sleeping next to me on my pillow when I wake up in the morning. (It does not help that I used to be a travel agent and I also worked for a hotel, so I KNOW what hotels can be like!)
This time, I was looking at prices and trying to be a little practical and chose a hotel I wouldn’t normally choose. Nothing is wrong with this particular chain, but if the name of the hotel doesn’t usually rhyme with Fyatt or Filton, it’s not on my radar. Let’s just say that the pictures of this hotel and the reality of the hotel were, to quote scripture, as far as the east is from the west. It was ok. I didn’t die. We got a good night’s sleep. But my expectation versus reality was disappointing.
Aren’t we lucky that we have a Heavenly Father that is exactly as He says?! We don’t need to worry that He’s not the same as He’s portrayed in the Bible. There were eyewitness accounts of who God and Jesus are! Passages in the Bible show Jesus’s loving words and actions.
We don’t have to worry about Him changing how He feels about us, because the Bible tells us that we are His children when we accept Him as our Savior. He listens to our pleas, feels our pain, and knows our stories. He doesn’t change His mind on a whim or lead us in a direction to say, “GOTCHA! I just wanted to mess with you!” He’s constant, ever-present, all-powerful, and all-knowing. He does not change!
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever. –Hebrews 13:8
I praise God that He is this way. In a world where the ebbs and flows seem to be dramatic and wildly moveable, I give thanks that we have a God whom we can count on. We know what He expects of us, and we know what to expect of Him.
Join with me this week in praising God for being an unmovable and unshakeable Creator. Let’s find ways to praise God for being exactly who He says He is!
~Erin
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