Seventh-day Adventist® Church

I did a devotional reading with the kids this morning. Pesky nuisance. The topic of the story not the kids! The reading was about "The Pesky Mosquito".

With a list of various facts and research, the satirical conclusion was "the best way to avoid mosquitoes is to be a not-too-clean, light-skinned male who wears light-coloured clothing and doesn't have to breathe!"

Apparently mosquitoes like the smell of soap, tend to go for dark skin, females, dark clothing, and the carbon dioxide in our breath attracts them. 

All I know is while some people are less affected, mosquitoes are an indiscriminate pesky nuisance to everyone. With over 3500 different varieties of mosquito, I am indiscriminate in not liking all of them!

One thing about them that I learnt today is the high pitched whine they make is at a frequency five notes above high C. 

So two things are constant; most species of mosquitoes suck our blood, and they all sing the same tune!

And so too with God. Not that He is pesky! Not that He wants our blood or sings a whiny song. But God is constant. Predictable. Never changing. 

Hebrews 6: 17-19 (NLT)
God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind. So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. 

Hebrews 13:8 (NLT)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I am glad I can have "great confidence" in what God has promised to me. That He is always the same.

-Pr Nathan Stickland