“But a history of unwelcomed changes can be a breeding ground for insecurity, because it invites you to become addicted to dread.  You learn to live life with the constant expectation that something bad is about to happen.  And because life is life, eventually something bad will happen, deepening your commitment to forecasting doom.  You develop into your own false prophet, and if you don’t stop yourself, you won’t rest until you’re proved true.  It’s a miserable trap of self-inflicted insecurity.  You can cheat yourself of ever enjoying the terrific season you’re experience, because you’re waiting any moment for it to change—and always for the worst . . . The truth is, God uses change to change us.  He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion, and destiny.” 

(Beth Moore) 

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Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.  I have made you and I will carry you;  I will sustain you and I will rescue you. 

(Isaiah 46:4 -- NIV) 

 

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. ¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.  ¹⁸ Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

(James 1:16-18 -- ESV)