Subject to change

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NIV)
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Temporary. That means “subject to change”. Years ago I heard Jerry Savelle preach on this, and it’s been sticking in my mind lately after I heard Paul Wilbur sing Say to The Mountain. Verse 1 says

I will walk by what God says, and not by what I see
For those things are temporal, and they’re subject to be changed.

(Check the link above, or here for guitar tab/words).

If you can see it, hear it, touch it, or feel it, it’s temporary, and therefore subject to change. Not enough resources? God can change it. Empty seats during worship? God can change it. Physical illness? God can change it.

Doug