The Middle C

When Lloyd Douglas, author of The Robe, attended college, he lived in a boardinghouse. A retired, wheelchair-bound music professor resided on the first floor.  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."

We all need a Middle C. Relationships change—health changes. The weather changes, but Jesus never changes! He is our Middle C! Life is forever changing, but Jesus is the constant we can always trust in him while traveling life’s journey.

Hebrews 13:8 says, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”