What is Your Constant

Have you ever stopped to consider what situation, or thing makes up your life and how they influence you every day?  I mean, what is your ‘constant’… the thing that does not change, which effects or involves you personally?

Let’s take a pause and read what the dictionary has to say about the word ‘constant’…… “A situation or state of affairs that does not change; occurring continually over a period of time.” 

I would venture to say that a person’s personality might very well be their constant, although, if you think about it, exceptions to the rule can occur if stronger personalities enter the equation of influence, so it’s not a constant in some instances.

A constant that God gives to individuals is their complexion color and the perfect hair color that compliments their complexion.  But wait, aging can certainly bring about change to the constant of hair color by turning it gray.

Some people experiment with different hair coloring products, because they are dissatisfied with God’s choice of hair color for them.  So, the constant will change every time a bottle of bleach is used, or hair dye coloring is applied.

Toupees are used to cover up men’s balding heads for those that are losing or have lost their hair for one reason or another.  Again, the constant of being bald changes with a little help from synthetic or real hair that has been manufactured into a toupee or ‘rug’ as I call it.  This is coming from a voice of experience, but this is a story for another time.

Before I met the Lord and surrendered my life to Him, my constant was living a sinner’s existence, while heading in the opposite direction from God.  When I asked God to forgive my sins, the constant, which was sinning, shifted and changed to a Godly life that I now live.  Salvation is forever.

I became a child of God which is my never changing way of living.  I am now on God’s side of the fence, rather than straddling it or carousing with the devil on his side.  When I made up my mind to follow the Lord, I left spiritual death and no longer wish that things were different, because they are.  Life is grand and full of harmony since I met Jesus!

The fact of the matter is this: I am a child of God and no longer a lost sinner looking for peace of mind and hoping for real stability.  Everything changed when I accepted Jesus as Lord, who died on the cross for my sins.

The negative constant of sinning controlled my coming and going, while keeping me in bondage.  This sinful way of living changed in a moment of time to a positive, lasting experience in Jesus.  I have found that God is worth living for.  The reasons are endless.

A sad state of affairs is when a person continues down the wide road to destruction without detouring and going God’s way.  They may wish they could make a change, but until they confess their sins to God, and allow Him to change their constant, they will remain a sinner on a fast track to self-destruction and spiritual death if they do not change their way of living.

A person cannot make this change of constant within their own power or self-will.  It’s not like changing hair color or wearing a toupee; it takes Jesus Christ to change the constant of the sin nature in a person’s life.

(John 6:44), “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

(Acts 4:12), “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

(Isaiah 64:6), “But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousness's are like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”

I have found that Godly living, in a world of ongoing changes, is the only thing that does not change.  It becomes every Christian’s constant, because God is the “Constant.”  He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 

The Trinity—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, are unchanging.  For this reason, we can trust them to keep their promises and to always be our constant, unlike the things in the world that are persistently changing, of which we cannot count on.  We are left to weep alone in times of trouble, but Jesus will never leave us.  He sticks closer than a brother.

(Proverbs 18:24), “A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”

(Deuteronomy 31:8), “And the Lord, He is the One who goes before you.  He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you, do not fear nor be dismayed.”

Written by,

Papa Boyd