The thing about change is that we tend to have a complicated relationship with it. Even the most flexible among us needs some consistency. It's true that too little change is deflating, but too much change can be disorienting. And so we learn, in each season of life, change has come before and will come again.
Psalm 136 is a Psalm with a vast imagination. It spans backwards past pre-history, and stretches forwards into the distant light years of eternity. Psalm 136 covers a lot of ground, and we’re faced with the unavoidable theme of change. But Psalm 136 is also shaped by an even more staggeringly definite reality. Something more certain than the ebbs and flows of the human history or our own personal histories. In the face of the inevitability of change, this Psalm nudges us toward something even more inevitable and trustworthy.
