Immutable

Today is Reformation Sunday, marking one of the important events in Western History. Although Jan Hus in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) had stood fast against the Catholic Church and was burned at the stake, it was Martin Luther a century later who nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the church in Wittenburg who finally initiated the separation from the Catholic Church.

The years since Luther's solitary act in 1517, were filled with change and the change continues today. Throughout the years of exploration and Renaissance and Revolution and Industrialization and World Wars, the pace of change has quickened. The technology of 20 years ago seems as dated as saying my computer is a Commodore 64.

Today the cycles of change interacts with each other as the ripples in the water from various pebbles, creating confusing merging half-circles. Social Engineering, Human Engineering, Governmental Philosophy, and Technology are all proceeding in a rapid collision course with each other.

Throughout all of this, the concept of "immutability" has sustained many people. These people believe that the passage of time is the real agent of change and that those of us who live in a temporal world will always be subject to change. These people also believe that God is eternal and outside time, not subject to change, and that God is immutable. Therefore in times of rapid change, these people can take solace in the immutable God; I am one of these people.

"Time is God's way of preventing everything from happening at once."
~ Anonymous, quoted in "Cottonwood Pass" by Ronald D. Giles