One and the same

Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever more.

for many Christians, its such a familiar line that its become some sort of a mantra, chant chant chant, yeah we know, next please. like it or not, many of us take it for granted.

but what does it exactly mean by Him being the same, yesterday today and forever more - as the Bible tells us?

lets go into a bit of that today.



the Bible clearly states that the heart of Jesus for us today is "for (our) good, and not of evil" and we know that God being God, He cant lie right? its time therefore to realise that unreal, impossible as it may sound, God is never ever angry with us, never hold anything against us and never imputes sin unto us.

but do we know the heart of love of God toward us? do you know that every believer has access to the heart of God and how he feels towards us today? that while we may not understand the mind of God, we have the mind of Christ - through the Holy Spirit that lives in us - and hold in us therefore, the feelings and purposes of His heart. [1 Corinthians 2:16]

its time for us to come to a realisation of the extent to which that heart of God is for us. "for by this we know love, that He dies on the cross for us" and that is the truest and most expressive action which shows the heart of God for us. the cross.

that same love that made Jesus willingly die on the cross is still there for us today. the same love that loved us in spite of our wretchedness "that while we were sinners Christ died for us". Jesus Christ is the same. His heart still burns with the same passion that led Him to lay up His life on our behalf. Even for those people whom we feel we love most - lets say the love of Christ that is placed there by Jesus living in us aside - we would hesitate, even for a fraction of second, on whether we would really want to die for them, in their place. But as for Jesus, the people that He died for had rejected Him, scorned Him, spit on Him, sneered at Him, jeered in His face, denounce Him as the Messiah, punched Him, whipped Him, persecuted Him, nailed Him, gambled away His clothes, TRIED to use the Law He Himself wrote to humiliate Him and basically were a bunch of unseeing, uncaring, rude, despicable and unappreciative bunch.

but He saw them through eyes that only saw love.
He saw that they were lost sheep, without a shepherd - no one to protect them, to look out for them, wandering aimlessly and fearfully, with no hope for the morrow.

and He loved them still, saying "forgive them Father, for they know not what they do"

that same heart of forgiveness and love extends to you today.

take hold, of it, cherish it and experience that love afresh today, and everyday.
and i pray you enjoy the sweetness of that manna of life.