Humanity has forever been caught up in fads. Some of these “stages” go away after a time, while others are never allowed to die. I recently visited a restaurant which had been totally redone in a retro-fifties motif—I mean radically retro-ed—the color scheme was so bright it was almost too loud to enjoy a meal. Sometimes it’s better to let it die.

The Scriptures often draw a line of distinction between that which is temporary and that which is permanent or eternal. The writer to the Hebrews picks up on this theme in the first chapter, verses 10-13: He also says, ‘In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.’ It is hard to miss the reference to the grander things of God’s creation.

Then the distinction is drawn: ‘They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed.’ Let’s understand that the things of God are in a constant mode of growth—they are constantly changing even if very slowly. Things will be different tomorrow.

However, we are not allowed to confuse the things of God with God himself. Our author concludes: ‘But you remain the same, and your years will never end.’ That which is of the Spirit of God is forever without end. That is stability! One can rely on those truths! When everything else in all of life falls away, God will yet stand forever—but we will only realize that truth if we remain in him.