Here we are in the middle of a 30 hour journey to get to Albania sitting in an airport for 11 hours. Once I finally sat down, I started doing some major people watching and got to thinking…
The airport is constantly changing. In the last few minutes I witnessed:
- a family who didn’t speak English put the pressure on their teenage grandson to read all the english signs
- grandparents come in from the airport and immediately smile the biggest hugs because their grandchildren arrived
- children racing rolling suitcases up and down the hallway
- people walking in full confidence in one direction and others looking completely lost and confused wandering in the other direction
- people greeting other people with kisses and balloons
- and a man sitting on a bench looking like his whole world is falling apart
I can so relate to all these things happening all at once. In just a moment I’ll be searching for absolutely anyone to help me read the signs I don’t understand. I’ll be greeted by Christians all around the world that feel like family just because we know Jesus. There will be times I know where I am going, but I’m mostly just expecting to look lost and confused. The trees will change. The temperature will change. Everything I know won’t be accessible anymore.
The thing about an airport is that it can have entirely different people in it hour after hour, but the building mostly stays the same. The flights can change, the gate numbers can change, you can never predict how long it will take to go through security, but the address of the airport stays the same day after day. It’s always going to be there despite the circumstances.
That’s my God. Even though my emotions are ever changing, my location will move, ministry might look different every month, my daily routines will be forced to adapt to other circumstances… My God stays the same.
No matter how different of a person I’m am a year from now, God’s going to stay the same stable, constant, loving, merciful, forgiving, all-powerful God of the universe that He’s always been.
