Webcams…who knew? Just a few years ago the idea of a webcam was still an idea. Now they are quite commonplace. This morning I did my banking online and looked at the webcams in Bar Harbor and Camden, Maine. I saw folks going about their daily activities, oblivious to the prying eye of the camera. One man, talking on his cell phone, waved to the camera, did a little jig and talked for a few more minutes before waving goodbye to the camera, saying goodbye, hanging up the phone and walking away. During our recent stay in Maine, we did a similar thing, at a different location, with people who were here in Washington State, talking to us.
I think of how things have changed in the past 50 years. In my brief lifetime the world has discovered color television, high definition television, flat screen television, plasma and LCD television, satellite television, commercial jet travel, PC’s, lap tops, VCR’s, DVD’s, 8 tracks, cassette tapes and CD’s, CT scans, MRI’s, chemo therapy, organ transplants, fuel injection, space travel, cell phones, satellite phones, jet boats, hang gliders, wind surfers and nuclear power for power plants, submarines, etc. The world I live in now, did not exist when I was born. The world of tomorrow is likely to change just as much, if not more. I do not know what my great grandparents would do if they were to come back and see this world. It would probably be foreign enough in some respects to be kind of scary to them.
I sometimes wonder what they would think of modern day religion. Would they recognize it as the religion of their day, or would it have changed significantly enough to cause them pause to reflect if this was the same God that they had worshipped in their time? There is often debate on this matter. People of faith frequently disagree on these matters. Some would say that God is the same yesterday, today and forever, so the way we worship Him should remain constant. While it is true that God does prescribe the proper ways to worship Him, it is also evident in the Bible that the discovery of ways to worship God, within His prescribed boundaries, was somewhat fluid and did change over the years. Many of the Jewish faith had adopted certain practices, for example, which Christ found to be extraneous to way in which they had originally been prescribed. He pointed these things out and then explained how it might be done better. This would often include simplifying something which men had interpreted and over complicated.
What we can hopefully learn is that change is not always good or bad, but it is inevitable. In life it will affect the way we do certain things. In faith it may affect the way we worship God. In life it may simplify or over complicate things. In faith the same holds true. With faith, however, when we allow worship to affect more and more areas of our life, then worship changes, but it is a change of improvement. Maybe that means things don’t stay the same, but sometimes when we change it is into the image of God, just as He intended. Blessings!

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