Daily Affirmations - Day 7 - Unchanging God - Yesterday, Today, Forever

Day 7: Yesterday, today, forever

All may change, but Jesus never - glory to His name

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

We change perpetually; the bloom of youth gives place to the strength of [adulthood], and the maturity of [adulthood] fades away into the weakness of old age... We came into this world with the ignorance of infancy; we grow up searching, studying, and learning with the diligence of youth; we attain to some little knowledge in our riper years; and then in our old age we totter back to the imbecility of our childhood.

But O, our Master! Thou didst perfectly foreknow all mortal or eternal things from before the foundations of the world, and Thou knowest all things now, and for ever Thou shalt be the same in Thine omniscience.

We are one day strong, and the next day weak—one day resolved, and the next day wavering—one hour constant, and the next hour unstable as water. We are one moment holy, kept by the power of God; we are the next moment sinning, led astray by our own lusts; but our Master is for ever the same; pure and never spotted; firm, and never changing—everlastingly Omnipotent, unchangeably Omniscient.

From Him no attribute doth pass away; to Him no [shift in perspective]... without variableness or shadow of a turning, He abideth fast and firm... We bless Christ that amid His heavenly splendors His person is just the same, and His nature unaffected. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.”

Jesus Christ is the same with regard to His Father as ever. He was His Father’s well-beloved Son before all worlds; He was His well-beloved in the stream of baptism; He was His well-beloved on the cross; He was His well-beloved when He led captivity captive, and He is not less the object of His Father’s infinite affection now than He was then.

Yesterday He lay in Jehovah’s bosom, God, having all power with His Father—today He stands on earth, Man, with us, but still the same, for ever—He ascends on high, and still He is His Father’s Son—still by inheritance, having a more excellent name than angels—still sitting far above all principalities and powers, and every name that is named.

O [follower of Christ], give Him thy cause to plead; the Father will answer Him as well now as He did [in times past]. Doubt not the Father’s grace. Go to thine Advocate. He is as near to Jehovah’s heart as ever—as prevalent in His intercession. Trust Him, then, and in trusting Him thou mayest be sure of the Father’s love to thee.

~ Spurgeon ~ The Immutability of Christ

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