{"id":308,"date":"2012-04-19T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2012-04-19T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T13:01:00","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You\u2019ve probably noticed yet another change in the style of my blog. There is a good reason for the change. After the initial modification, I heard comments like, \u201cI liked the red\u2026I felt like I was sitting in your family room.\u201d \u201cWhere is the red?\u201d \u201cIt felt warm the way it was before.\u201d \u201cIt was you!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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So after trying a different look (for quite a while I might add), I\u2019ve decided to combine the two. A red background with black lettering on white. It should fulfill all of our desires and needs.<\/span><\/div>\n
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To be honest, I liked it the way it was originally. I\u2019m a red person. But I\u2019m also a red and white person, so I think I will like this template in the long run.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sometimes it is easy to get caught up in the \u201cwhat\u2019s new\u201d arena. You know what I\u2019m talking about. Pinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and that old friend, Facebook. I thought by changing my blog to the \u201cnew\u201d style, I would be doing something \u201cright.\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n
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I was wrong.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Sometimes it is okay to keep things the way it\u2019s always been. Change just because you can is a poor reason to change.<\/span><\/div>\n
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So I\u2019m back to red. <\/span><\/div>\n
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While I believe we are to change for our spiritual maturity, I also know that God doesn\u2019t change. He is the same today as He was in the beginning.<\/span><\/div>\n
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There are numerous verses of Scripture to lead us in that direction. <\/span><\/div>\n
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The last book of the Old Testament shares the message with the Hebrew nation. Malachi 3:6 \u201cI the Lord do not change.\u201d<\/i> God does not change, nor does His commitment or His purpose.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Hebrews 7:21 assures us that God will not change His mind either. \u201cThe Lord has sworn and will not change his mind; You are a priest forever.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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We also see that Jesus remains the same in Hebrews 13:8 \u201cJesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.\u201d<\/i> <\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cEvery good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.\u201d<\/span><\/i> (James 1:17) Gifts come from a Father who doesn\u2019t change. Unlike other people in our lives or even the circumstances of our lives, God will not change.<\/span><\/div>\n
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And in the last book of the Bible, we see more evidence of this unchanging God. \u201c\u2019I am the Alpha and the Omega,\u2019 says the Lord God, \u2018who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.\u2019\u201d <\/i>(Revelation 1:8) Yes, the First and Last, who is, was, and is to come is unchanging.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Everything changes in our lives. From what my hair looks like each day to favorite restaurants closing to lanes on the expressway being moved for construction to the design of a blog post.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The one thing we can count on to never change is God. God, His purpose, His commitment, His Word. Never has changed. And never, ever will change.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Praise the Lord, He never changes!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Grace and peace be yours in abundance,<\/span><\/div>\n
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Donna<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve probably noticed yet another change in the style of my blog. There is a good reason for the change. After the initial modification, I heard comments like, \u201cI liked the red\u2026I felt like I was sitting in your family room.\u201d \u201cWhere is the red?\u201d \u201cIt felt warm the way it was before.\u201d \u201cIt was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,15,23,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-believing-god","category-knowing-god","category-seeing-god","category-trusting-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}