March 1, 2020 (Sunday)
TIME MARCHES ON! This was the title of a weekly news program presented in theaters many years ago. Seen every 4 weeks in theaters
Do you know this man?
His name is Ron Howard, and he celebrates his 66th birthday today.
Perhaps you knew him as “Opie.” He does not look like the Sheriff’s son, does he? Time changes things.
He no longer goes by the name, “Opie,” because he has become quite successful in the movie business, directing such important films as, “Apollo 13.”
When I was a kid the radio at our house played country songs, and one of them was, “Time Changes Everything:” “There was a time when I thought of no other, And we sang our own love’s refrain; Our hearts beat as one and we had our fun, But time changes everything.”
But..does time change everything? It changes how we look, and how we sound, but some things do not change. I still love the Bible, I still love the church, I still love the Lord, I still love to preach, I still love to sing about the Lord, I still love to be with friends at worship, and on I could go, I guess.
Fact is, some things change, and other things in our lives do not change unless we allow them to change.
Today is Sunday. Unless something happens to prevent my going to church, I’ll be there. I’ll be praying for the pastor and worship leaders, for my fellow worshipers, and for my heart to be open to hear whatever the Lord says to me during that holy hour of worship.
I hope none of those things have changed for you.
“Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some is” (Hebrews 10:25).