Always the same

 

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. – Hebrews 13.8

 

I remember back probably 43-44 years ago sitting in a chapel service at Bible college. It was missions conference week and the missionary speaking was from Brazil. He preached from this passage and he kept repeating the phrase, something like, ‘Jesus Cristo - o mesmo ontem, hoje e para sempre.’ I didn’t know Portuguese. I didn’t understand the words at first, I didn’t remember the words today, but that memory remains in my mind today. I always think about it whenever I see this passage.

 

But it is a passage well worth remembering because its truth is so powerful. Jesus never changes because He is always the same.  Jesus never fails because He is always the same. Jesus never disappoints because He is always the same.

 

That means that the Jesus was there at the beginning is the same today as He was then. That means that the Jesus who born of a virgin, who healed the sick and raise the dead and cast out demons, who willingly went to the cross for us and suffered and died in shame and rose victorious from the grave and ascended to heaven and is coming again for us is the same Jesus we depend on every day in 2020 and beyond. He never changes.

 

Doesn’t it seem obvious that if the same Jesus is with us today that He can do all the things we need today? Sometimes life is too much. Sometimes we really can’t handle it. But Jesus can. We can look back at all He has done in the past and remember that He is no less powerful today.

 

He is always the same.