In the text for last week we saw how impossible it becomes to try to limit a description of appropriate Christian behavior to a rigid, inflexible code. There is a danger on the other extreme as well: The Christian can come to the (erroneous) conclusion that everything is relative, in constant flux, and totally dependent on the situation, one’s own feelings, and the individual’s point of view.

Not so. Christianity is flexible enough to address a changing world. But Christian faith is also rooted. There is a center, an unchanging, unmoved constant against which the Christian can measure all things. That constant is God’s faithfulness which takes the shape of unconditional, embracing love. The Psalmist says it time and time again when giving thanks: "God’s steadfast love endures forever."

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