A Goody From Woody

The name Lloyd Douglas may not register with you unless you are over fifty years old. But for some of us, it brings fond memories. Mr. Douglas was born in Indiana and even lived in Florence Kentucky for a short time. He graduated from Wittenberg College and pastored churches in Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C.

When he was fifty years old he left the ministry and started a writing career. He wrote three of my favorite books: The Robe, The Big Fisherman, and Magnificent Obsession.

While still in college and living in a boarding house, Mr. Douglas tells several wonderful things he remembered. On the first floor, a retired wheel-chair-bound music professor resided. Each morning Douglas would stick his head in the door of the teacher’s apartment and ask the same question, “Well, what’s the good news?” The old man would pick up his tuning fork, tap it on the side of his wheelchair, and say, “That’s middle C! It was middle C yesterday; it will be middle C tomorrow; it will be middle C a thousand years from now. The tenor upstairs sings flat. The piano across the hall is out of tune; but my friend, that is middle C.”

If I had a gift to give all people on planet earth (other than salvation), this would be it: enough change!! We all need to know that we’ll not have more changes in our health or in relationships or jobs or church. Even the weather changes. Sometimes we like that and sometimes we do not.

Don’t you love the truth of Hebrews 13:8? “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

God is in charge! He is still in the business of being Sovereign and we can still call on Him for help, comfort, encouragement and peace. Why? Because He changes not.

He is our middle C!

God Bless,
Woody