In Him we can trust - by Melanie Jominin

Just as I came back from a long holiday and about to start my day in my cubicle, my colleague informed me an earthquake struck Sumatra with 6.6 magnitude. I was dumbfounded for a while for I thought that  lately we are often bombarded with these natural disaster news that is caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide and many more worldwide. We both were so disturbed with the news that we start recalling the documentary that we used to watch titled “Nostradamus Predictions”.  

Nostradamus is an astrologer who wrote “The Prophecies” published in 1955 a collection of 12 predictions which led to numerous speculations.  A few of his predictions involved major world events such as the rise and fall of Hitler, The assassination of John F. Kennedy, 9/11 collapse of the World Trade Centre and the most talked about now with a movie to visualized this prediction -2012 The End of the World.

At the end of our disturbing moments my colleague actually asked me, “So Mel, is the world really going to end at 2012?” I replied “Even if it is, let me die quick. I don’t want to open my eyes and know that I became “cacat” (handicapped) after a catastrophy.”

I still can’t get it out of my thoughts and it became a conviction that dwells me deeper into all this. I think not only the geographical coordinates were affected after a certain natural disaster happened (for example when the Tsunami struck Japan part of the world plates shifted that causes flood in other areas of the world), part of our lives are also changing as the world evolves.

The human natural metamorphosis doesn’t stop the ageing process; birth, death is still part of being a human.  Nothing seemed permanent nowadays. It comes to another question. What is permanent nowadays anyway?

Job? Nope…The higher level you go the higher the stress is to maintain your job.

Money? Nope….Hard to come, easy to go …even successful investors have their ups and downs.

Relationship? Nope….Adultery, divorce rate (OMG…Hollywood marriage)

As the thought goes deeper I can’t help to wonder, with where I am right now, the age that I am right now, the friends that I have right now that all these will constantly change or maybe to my worst imagination…gone.

Or is this Que sera sera, whatever will be will be or will it be C’est la vie.

My brain hurts thinking this way.

As I woke up the next morning, a particular verse kept on pushing in my brain. Alpha …Omega…it reminds me of  the verse in Revelation when God says:

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End

 Yes the world evolved.

Yes people changed now and then.

Yes we planned the future and sometimes no matter how hard we try things doesn't always go our own way. (If it does, good for you.)

But God,
He doesn’t change.
He assures us that He is still the same from A to Z.

Therefore friends and even to myself , from the first day we were born to the last day we breath in this world He gave us hope and strength that we needed that He will still be the same for us. 

Our beginning and our end.