2014-02-25 - Trending

Most every time I turn on our computer, and check news updates, I’m informed about what is “trending,” whether I’m interested or not. These topics change from year to year, sometimes from day to day. Nowadays, some of the trendiest topics include Vampires, the Winter Olympics and disengaging from social media. Just like everything else in the world, social media can be used for either good or ill purposes. Media such as Facebook_© and Twitter_© have reunited family members who hadn’t been in touch in years, helped friends become closer, and made it possible for family members to be share in each other’s day-to-day lives - regardless of distance. But lately it’s become “cool” to say that one is no longer going to participate. That’s fine, but it doesn’t make the person any more or less virtuous than anyone else; it simply makes them trendy. Sometimes books are trendy, especially when someone very famous endorses it; there is one celebrity who can garner millions of purchases for authors, simply by saying that a book is good.

At the time I wrote this devotional, some of the “trending” stories related to a snake-handling preacher who was killed by a snake, rideshare companies, and the multi-talented Jennifer Aniston.

But there is one person and one book that are not trendy; rather, they are eternal and never-changing. As God’s word reminds us:

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (NASB)

He will never change. No matter how fickle other people may become, Jesus Christ will always be loving, will always be just, and will always be the devoted Shepherd of His flock.

And God’s word, the Bible, is just as relevant today, in 2014, as it has ever been. It is still enlightening, still instructive, and still life-changing - if we will allow it to do those things for us.

Janice P. Moser
http://www.cfdevotionals.org

All scripture references are from the NASB unless otherwise noted.