IT LOOKED GOOD AND NEW THEN

 "and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand" (Rev. 6:5)

It doesn't take difficult scholarly acrobatics to realize riders are easily thrown from their saddles; the "most balanced" human rider then, can be easily thrown, can't he? 

My sister e-mailed me a delightful photo this morning. It was the first A&W in Okinawa in 1963. Drive-in's were new then, so eating here was as big a deal as going to the restaurant. Cars parked at stations, and complimentary mini "baby burgers" and "baby root beer" came on the tray hooked onto the car window.  Our order of regular hamburgers, root beers, fries was delivered to that tray where, of course, we stayed and ate. Daddy, Mommy, Joyce, and I ordered regular sizes, while Janice insisted she was happy with the baby meal!

What looked like "a modern way" then seems rather inefficient and clumsy now. It went from "drive-in" to "drive-thru"; ordering by intercom to doing it by tablet. Yes, the rider has fallen off his high horse a few times.

No one expects anything "new and improved" to stay "new" forever but one day will become old, even archaic, like the drive-in. Isn't it only Jesus Christ Who can claim He will be "the same yesterday, and today, and forever" (Heb. 13:8)?

"To whom shall we go?" Peter once responded when asked if he was disappointed in Jesus and would turn away from Him after all; "Thou hast the words of eternal life." (John 6:68)

When it seems He has let us down--and there are many times in life it will look like that--we must remember He is the only one, actually, that will NOT. It is just before those words of "yesterday, today, and forever", we find the promise:

"I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." (Heb. 13:5)