February is always an ‘in between’ sort of a month. Christmas and New Year lie behind us and we await Easter ahead. We’ve celebrated, know we’re just about to change gear for Lent, and then a different kind of celebration occurs afterward.
Christians do not live their faith in a simple linear fashion. We experience a diet of slow and fast, high excitement and muted expectation. We have services of music and colour but the periods between can seem almost dull by comparison.
This continual sense of change can be disorientating, so we need something constant on which to lay hold. For that reason, we think about God continually, and use the knowledge of His love and faithfulness as a kind of bedrock. The Bible tells us the steadfast love of God never ceases and his mercies never come to an end (Lam 3:22). If we lay hold of this truth, and think about it often, then the day-to-day changes in the Church calendar add flavour to our devotion rather than the changes disorientating our lives of faith.
So as we move into the new Church year, we need to think about God and his ever-constant love. It’s a life changer.
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