Goodbye, Ma ...

Goodbye, Ma Bell that is.  It seems that Apple, now the world's largest company by capitalization, is to displace AT&T from the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  Talk about how the might have fallen!  AT&T was once the most powerful, prestigious business in the nation.  Many of us remember when it provided the only option for long distance service.  It WAS the phone company.  And it could do anything.  Now it can't even keep its seat at the stock market's big kids table.  It all goes to prove that nothing of this world is forever, a message that is repeatedly shared in Scripture.

Lent is a good time to reflect on the transience of things.  What we think is enduring is not.  Kingdoms, nations, companies will all pass from the scene.  So, too, can our sin, if we'll let it.  That grudge?  Resentment?  Pique? Hurt? Bad or dangerous habit?  They can all go the way of the dodo.  All we need to do is turn to the One who is forever, the eternal God who comes to us in love, power, and service in Jesus Christ.

So as you read this - perhaps on an Apple computer, which, one day will be as obsolete as a dodo - remember to hold onto what lasts: the love and grace of  God.  Everything else will pass.

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