Our Security In The Unchanging Christ

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

God has set a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness. On that day God will judge the secrets of men. Let the wicked flatter themselves that the idea of any coming to judgment is simply ridiculous. They have spoken lies. One day, however, when they see the Lamb of God whom they have scorned, they will cry out to the mountains and rocks to fall upon them.

The mercy of Christ is everlasting; His truth endures from generation to generation. The same gracious Savior that He was yesterday to our fathers, He is today to us. All want a part of the comfort offered, but without the hand of faith they wait in vain. There is no deficiency in Him; but is there none in you? Whatsoever Christ is, what are you? He forgave Mary Magdalene many sins; and so He will forgive you, if you can shed Mary’s tears. When any man shall prove to be such a sinner, He will not fail to be such a Savior.

Today He is yours, if today you will be His. What if dark death prevents tomorrow’s light? He was yesterday, so were you: He is today, so are you: He is tomorrow, but maybe you will not be. Time may change you, although it cannot change Him. He is not subject to natural change like you.

You have lost yesterday carelessly; you are losing today willfully and therefore you may lose eternal life and heaven inevitably. He that was yesterday the God of Abraham is today our God and He will forever be the God of our children.

Many parents worry about how their children will do when they are dead; yet they forget how God provided for them when they were children. Is the Lord’s arm shortened? Cannot this experience of His mercy to you, persuade you that He will not forsake your own children? Is not Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever?

There are untrusting parents who are so anxious for their children, that while they live they starve their bodies and hazard their souls to leave their children wealthy. In their folly, they fear leaving their children miserable; yet such parents take the only course to make them miserable; for they leave them not so much heirs to their goods as to their evils. The good man, on the other hand, is merciful, and shares what he has with the poor. Habits which the secular man thinks shall make his children poor. Trust Christ with your children; Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and for ever. Grace and peace are from Him who is, and was, and is to come; so glory and honor to Him, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.