Middle "C"

By John Clardy

Psalms 119:89   For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

Matthew 24:35   Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Lloyd C. Douglas, author of The Robe and other novels lived in a boarding house when he was a student. On the first floor of the house there lived a retired music teacher who was confined to a wheelchair. Every morning as Douglas went down stairs he would stick his head in the music teacher's room and ask his friend; "What's the good news?"

The music teacher would respond the same way each day by striking a tuning fork against the side of his wheelchair and saying; "Middle C! Hear that? It's middle C! It was middle C yesterday, its middle C today, and it will still be middle C a 1,000 years from now. The tenor upstairs sings flat, the piano across the hall is out of tune, but my friend that is still middle C!"

God's Word is our middle C. Just like middle C could be counted on by the music teacher to be middle C always and forever, so too can we count on God’s Word always and forever.  It will accomplish what it was sent to do.  Every promise is yea and amen!

Isaiah 55:10-11

10         For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

11         So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

2 Corinthians 1:20          For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

Here are some other middle C’s from the Word of God!

Psalms 23:6      Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

2 Peter 3:9         The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance

Hebrews 13:8     Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

James 1:17        Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Romans 11:29    For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

God is good all the time.  That is more than a cute slogan or catchy saying.  It is an eternal truth! He will never cease to be good!

David said His goodness would follow after us all the days of our lives. 

James said everything that is good is from God.

With God there is no variableness (fickleness) or shadow of turning. There is not even the slightest suggestion that God will ever change! Everything that God has ever been, He will always be.  His goodness and mercy are from everlasting to everlasting.  Everything else may seem flat or out of tune in our lives, but we can rest assured that God’s Word is a middle C. It was yesterday, It is today and It will be forever.