The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe
"The Same Yesterday, and Today, and Forever"
If ever we have found our Savior to be faithful and true regarding all we need Him to be, we can anticipate the blessed discovery to continue in this day and in all to come.
"Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever" (Hebrews 13:5).
Circumstance, conditions, and situations change. Christ abides as the same always, in every contingency. We may experience Him differently as blessings and challenges arise. He nevertheless will be who He is, and do what He does in the same perfection of faithfulness we have known and will know as we affirm His continuity amid whatever change comes our way. No truth more seals and secures our hearts, preparing us to trust the perfectly holy God who cannot be other than Himself, or act apart from the perfection of His character, nature, and way. "It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning - great is Thy faithfulness" (Lamentations 3:22-23).
We can trust someone of such perpetual perfection. We awaken to new compassions each day, that is, to administrations of the loving faithfulness of God perfectly tailored to whatever life may involve. We do well to make the matter pertinent: what does this day hold according to our plans and expectations? Whatever the answer, our Heavenly Father has determined from everlasting to be all we will need, and do whatever we require of His grace and working. Moreover, any surprises that await us will arise in accordance with His perfect providence. In holiness, God cannot fail to fulfill His eternal purpose in Christ for our benefit, and the blessing through us of those with whom we live our lives. The only question is whether will open our eyes and hearts to see "the same yesterday and today and forever." The challenge is great, but the opportunity shines in far greater magnitude and the possibility of knowing our Lord in whatever comes our way. "I found Him whom my soul loveth" (Song of Solomon 3:4).
"I will look for Him" declared the prophet, who would doubtless tell us that his search ended in discovering God and His abounding faithfulness (Isaiah 8:17). As we shall, when remembering the Lord Jesus cannot be other than who He is, or fail to do what He does. Our yesterdays remind us of this. Today bears witness by the Spirit of God, the Word of God, and the faithfulness of God that envelops and fills our existence. The future promises that such grace will never end, but only grow greater in our awareness and experience as amid the changes of life, our Lord is known as the abiding truth and reality - "the same yesterday, and today, and forever."
"I am the Lord. I change not."
(Malachi 3:6)
Weekly Memory Verse
Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
(Philippians 1:6)
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