Jesus Christ remains the same
August 23, 2010 (Monday)
On Friday evening, I drove through downtown Houston on my way from a South Main restaurant back to the church-owned cottage next door to the Timbergrove Baptist Church on West 17th Street. Not being familiar with some of the re-routed streets adjacent to downtown, I took a wrong turn and found myself on Maury Street, where I lived in the early 1940’s. Troy and his family lived on the same street a couple of blocks north. I was surprised to see that his side of the street had been cleared of all buildings. Upon checking, I discovered that Maury Street is to become part of the extension of the Hardy Street Toll Road from Loop 610 North to Highway 59 near downtown. It is predicted to be completed next year, but the contractors will have to hurry to conform to that timeline.
And so another landmark from my youth is disappearing. The Eastex Freeway already occupies old Jarrell street where I lived as a child of five or so. Now the Hardy Street Toll Road will run over the place where I lived while in the sixth and seventh grades. Almost every place I knew as a child is now gone. The Highway 288 Freeway runs through the neighborhood, less than a block from the house on Ruth Street, where I lived during three years of high school. The house is still there, but the street has changed, now severed by a freeway, less than a block from the house.
Such is life in the city of Houston. Everything is constantly changing. Things are probably changing in your life, too. Change is normal for the times.
There is someone who will never change. We all need to remember Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today and forever!”