Yesterday, today and forever

Dear friends

Have you heard someone say that GOD is the same, yesterday, today and forever?

Or perhaps you’ve said it yourself recently?

To someone?

Or in a prayer?

It’s in the bible, in

Hebrews 13:8
⁸ Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Truly the first person I’ve ever seen who never changes.

I find that so comforting – don’t you?

It would be good if we had many people in our lives who never change – or at least not regarding their love for us. No matter what we did – they would always be there and would keep loving us. And never leave us or forsake us – like GOD, as HE promised in the same chapter 3 verses earlier (and also in the books of Deuteronomy and Joshua).
But that’s not the reality for many of us.
Most of us will have lost people because of something we said or did?
Or we will over the course of our life have left someone because of their actions…?!

Because human love tends to be conditional.
Even if the conditions vary, there is likely to be a deal-breaker for everyone!
Something when we would leave – or have left.
Something that will make us give up on that person, on that relationship.

Not so GOD.

HE won’t leave or give up on us.

EVER.

I find that very hard to understand… and I would even say it’s too much for my mind to comprehend – I can only – sort of – understand it with my heart to some degree.
As I have felt GOD’s love and I am sure that I don’t always deserve it… and still, it’s always there, always! HE even loves me when I don’t love myself, in those moments when I am ashamed of something or when I believe those thoughts that I am inadequate, not good enough or unlovable…….. HIS love is there.
HE is there with me!!!
And I only get an idea of this love when I think of the moments when I felt loved by someone or when I loved someone deeply.
However, in my case (and I know I am not alone), this unending love for someone, no matter who it is, is not permanent – I may come back to it, but there’s always other emotions involved including not so positive ones, and my love, our love as humans, is “just a feeling” like any other feeling….only through GOD can I love differently, more permanent, independent from my current emotion for that person, more on a higher level.
At least that’s the way I see it.
Not sure if anyone can relate?
That’s also the love I can have for my clients (who many of them have committed crimes) or for the people who have wronged or hurt me – I can only love them through GOD and do my best to see them through HIS eyes and remember that HE loves them just as HE loves me and that they, too, are made in HIS image, and that HE will love them through their mistakes and forgive them just as HE has loved me and forgiven me.

But the other one, that HE is the same yesterday, today and forever.
That’s even more mind blowing – at least to me!

What that even means for MY life.

There’s actually no limit to what HE can do.

The bible is full of stories that really happened and that were miraculous beyond measure!

And I know that everyone who believes in GOD knows this, but I believe it takes a personal revelation like the one I had just the other day, to fully comprehend that nothing, absolutely nothing I ever read about in the bible would be impossible to happen in MY LIFE TODAY.

All the miracles GOD has ever done.

The ones accounted for in the bible, even the ones nobody knows about because nobody has written them down (and I am certain they are much more than the ones we do know about!).

All those can HE perform right now and for me!

That HE can part the Red Sea for me.
That I can enter the Promised Land.
That HE is in the fire with me.
That HE shuts the mouths of the lions in the lions’ den.
That HE can cleanse me, heal me, deliver me.
It means that all the accounts in the bible are not just stories of the past – they are “realtime” / “live” – freshly streamed, recently dropped, still running on all channels, “hot” – not historic!
Even though they are…

For me, that is a HUGE DEAL, not just a big deal.

I want GOD to do miracles in MY LIFE – don’t you?

There’s things I have been praying for for many years, I am sure I’m not the only one.

Promises I have heard HIM make and believed that they are for me!

As the bible also says, “so what shall we say to these things then?”(Romans 8:31), and it continues “if GOD be for us, who could be against us?”

I don’t know about you, but I have experienced a lot of opposition in my life.
I wouldn’t say only since I’ve become a Christian, but I would say more so since.
Would you?

And I haven’t “cracked the code”/ found the “password” – yet – to unlock the full potential of GOD’s power, HIS blessings and HIS promises being fulfilled in my life.

I believe it starts with understanding more about who HE actually IS.

And listening to what HE says.

Prayer is another one I think is important.

And obedience.

But I also believe it’s a process.
A process of learning more about and from GOD and of getting to know HIM better as a person, as a friend, a father, a provider, a teacher, a healer, a deliverer, a fellow human, a deity, a spirit, someone who did all these miracles, but also someone who was betrayed, hurt, even killed.

To study HIM and HIS word.

To spend time with HIM.

To ask HIM about anything, listen – just converse with HIM….

To love HIM with all I have!

That’s all I know.

So far.

And then of course, to wait on HIM.
Wait for HIS timing.

That’s all I know and all I can do.

Believe, ask, wait, obey, listen and trust…….. in HIS plan, in HIS purpose for my life, in HIS timing.

Not easy – but loving everyone all the time isn’t easy either – perhaps for GOD it is?

Just felt that this revelation gave me a better understanding of who GOD is – and I wanted to share it with you my friends.
Perhaps someone has had a deeper insight, some inspiration or reassurance from this or similar to mine…?

As always, I hope and pray that this will encourage, inspire, heal and bless you.
And that THE LORD will bless you abundantly in all areas of your life; that HE will keep you and shine HIS face upon you and bring you PEACE. In JESUS name I pray. AMEN.