Jesus is the same still

Hebrews 13:8
     Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Yesterday I posted on this verse and asked that you stop and think about this Bible verse and what it really means. I wanted everyone to take some time to prayerfully consider this verse before I wrote about my thoughts on the subject.

For me this verse is something I have only recently come to appreciate. Jesus never changes. Times come and go, kingdoms rise and fall, eventually the whole of creation will have existed and be no more yet Jesus will still be exactly the same as He always was. I have mentioned before my training in science and my love for the same. 

While learning about the universe in my time at university I learned a huge amount about numbers. Learning about numbers, specifically at very large and very small scales I came to some sort of appreciation about just how long the universe has existed for. Jesus was the word at the beginning of the universe, the hands though which the universe was created. This time is so long as to be nothing but an abstract thought for mere humans, but Jesus has lived this, been there, seen it all.

It is hard for humans who by their very nature are constantly changing to understand a perfect unchangeable being. Everything we experience in life changes us in some way, every day we wake up and go to bed slightly different to the last time we did so and different to what we will be next time we do them. 

Yet the God we worship never changes, when we pray we are talking to the same God who walked with Adam in Eden, the God who changed Abram into Abraham. He is the God who talked with Moses at the burning bush and gave him the 10 commandments, the God of the Prophets and of Israel. Do we really appreciate the fact that the God we worship, our Saviour is the same as He was in the Bible, the same as when He died on the cross.

It is very easy at times to justify the ways we act and the things we do as being somehow different to things in the past. We become lax and fall into habits we know Jesus taught against and that would upset God. And the way we justify them is that we are living in a different world to then and that things really are different now.

But God has not changed ans sin is still sin. There is nothing we can do to change the fact that the worlds ways are upsetting to God and that as His children He wants us to act differently to those ways. It is a hard thing to do to live up to the example Jesus was, but it is a worthwhile goal, it must be as the prize is eternal life in Heaven. 

We can trust in God and always rely on Him because we can trust that He will always be the same and He will always be there when you need Him. We can rejoice in the fact that our God will always be the kind loving Father that he is and has been. He will always be the same, yesterday, today and forever.

Jesus is the same

Hebrews 13:8
     Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.


There are many things that change in life and it seems looking back over this almost finished year that this has been a year of much change. So many things that were one way at the beginning of 2010 are now very much different, so many plans and ideas have come and gone. I won't go in to too much detail as I plan on writing a summary for the whole year soon, but there is one thing that I have come to realise, and been told recently.

Jesus is always the same, He was one way when God created the universe, He was the same way when He came to Earth, He was that way when He died on the cross and He will still be the same when the last embers of this universe fade and die.

This is one of those facts that I have had as a head knowledge for a long time, something I have read and heard many times over the years. However only recently have I begun to understand quite what this means. I had one of those moments when I checked the Bible verse on my phone today and it was the verse quoted at the beginning of this post.

Hebrews 13:8 

     Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Tomorrow I will post my thoughts on this verse, but before I do I'd like people to consider what it means to them and in general.So stop and think about this verse, really consider it and what it really means. I'd ask everyone who reads this post to consider this verse prayerfully and ask God to reveal the magnitude of this verse to them.

Lessons from Jez

A friend of mine recently posted a fantastic story on her blog. I would recommend that you read it here. This post shows though that Christians are in need. The world needs people who are loving, compassionate and willing to make a sacrifice in order to help. We need to go out in to the world and be courageous for Christ. It is not enough to sit in Church on a Sunday or which ever day of the week you attend and sit there feeling that you are doing what God wants. Yes God does want us to worship him, but that is just a small part of what He and Jesus command us to do. We are to go out into the world and show people the love of Christ, that he is there to love and save all people regardless of the past. We need to show people that there are no barriers to the love of Christ, that he loves us all and wants us all to love him. We can not go around saying Christ loves every one, except you, he hates you. This is not who our Lord and Saviour is. He came to Earth and died for all our sins, not all my sins or all your sins but all sins of all people. Be courageous, be loving, be Christlike. Go do what Jesus would do and serve the sick and those who need some love in their life. Because the love we have to offer which flows from Jesus is like no love they will have known, it is the best there is, the best there can be. Yes there is risk and danger in doing this but what about the risk of doing nothing, that has eternal consequences and is surely much worse. Jesus said;

Matthew 25:35-40 (Paraphrase)

        I was hungry and you fed me,

        I was thirsty and you gave me a drink,

        I was homeless and you gave me a room, 

        I was shivering and you gave me clothes,

        I was sick and you stopped to visit,

        I was in prison and you came to me.'

       'I'm telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me-you did it to me.' 

In addition to this there are the following verses;

Matthew 6:3

    When you help someone out, don't think about how it looks. 

John 3:17  

    God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. 

Hebrews 13:6

    we can boldly quote,

        God is there, ready to help;

        I'm fearless no matter what.

        Who or what can get to me?