A Change is Gonna Come

I like A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke.  Well, all except these lines:

It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die 
Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky

I hope the change that's gonna come is that people learn what's up there beyond the sky so they are no longer afraid to die.

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the Christians who have died will rise from their graves.  Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever. (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17 NLT)

But I digress.  That has nothing to do with what I came here to write about, but I thought of it when I chose the song name for the title of this post.

What I really came here to say is that I recently started using Twitter and I was surprised to discover that I enjoy it.  At first I was just following some people, but I'm starting to send an occasional Tweet.  Since my blogs are kind of a personal archive, I wanted to capture the Tweets here as well.  Here's my latest.

God changes things. The pharaoh went from decreeing Moses' death to being his adoptive grandfather! #keepthefaith

I included a link to this passage.

So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

And a man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daughter of Levi.  So the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.  And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river. And her maidens walked along the riverside; and when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it.  And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”

And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the maiden went and called the child’s mother.  Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.  And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. So she called his name Moses, saying, “Because I drew him out of the water.” (Exodus 1:22-2:10 NKJV)

I like the challenge of conveying a message in a limited number of characters.  I won't go into a lot of commentary here either.  Suffice it to say, keep the faith because a change is gonna come.