Can you remember when Coke was 5 cents? Hershey bar was 5 cents. A cup of coffee was 5 ents. A first class stamp was 3 cents. A gallon of gas was 29 cents. A new Chevy was $1,200. A teacher earned $2,640 a year. The most basic computer cost $5,000,000.
We have come from a 9 to 5 workday, 5 days per week to 24/7/265. We have come from going to jail for playing lotteries and numbers games to the fact that today the biggest bookie on the block are State governments.
A “crack salesman” meant someone who was really good at selling. “Log on” meant something you put in the stove. “Download” meant taking the wood off the wagon. Micro-chip meant the small potato chips at the bottom of the bag.
I ask you, “do you think you will ever come to a time in your life where there will be less change than there is today?
These are times that try men’s souls in terms of the constant change, crunch, and conflict.
So, how can I live triumphant in such trying times? First Peter, chapter 1 and verse 13 gives us the answer the answer:
“Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
and verse 23 from that same chapter “having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the Word of God which lives and abides forever.”
Our future is not a function of chance but of choice. In the Christian faith roads are made by walking. “Walk by faith, not by sight.”