Jesus Remains the Same

 DEVOTION

TO HEBREWS

JESUS REMAINS THE SAME

Heb 1:10-12

10 He also says, "In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. 11 They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. 12 You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end."  

NIV

The question is still, to which angels did God ever say? He never said to any angel, but He did say about Jesus. It was Jesus who was in the beginning. The Apostle John, the one he loved, makes it as clear as it can be at the beginning of his gospel account when he said, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”.  John continued to tell us that all things were made through him and this writer to Hebrews said the same thing, “In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundation of the earth”. No angel can do that, but Jesus did and He is the one who gave life to the whole earth, all plants have a life within them, it causes them to grow. He gave life to every living animal he spoke into existence, they have the breath of life in them, perhaps not sentient beings, but nevertheless, they live, and multiply with life. Jesus is the one who formed us from the dust and breathed his very breath of life into us, making us like them, having knowledge, understanding, and knowing who we are. However, we also notice that all this earth, even us, is but a temporary expression of the creative hand of Jesus. We know that someday the whole world will be changed, and a new earth will exist. We also know that we will perish, our bodies will wear out like a garment, and we will be rolled up like a robe, that is put in the grave, but at the same time, we are also like a garment that will be changed. We know this corruptible body will be changed into an incorruptible body and it also will be changed from a perishable body into an imperishable one. We will all be changed, but Jesus never has changed. He is the same from before and at the beginning, and will forever be the exact way he has always been. Although all things come to an end or are changed from a temporary form into an eternal form, Jesus will always be the same Jesus he has always been. We think we have to see that even as he spent those years in the form of a man, He was still the same Jesus he had always been and will forever be. Although he presented himself as a man, he was fully God, the creator of all that is created, the same as he will always be. This is how much Jesus loves us, or we could say, this is how much God loves us, for Jesus is God, and therefore God came down to satisfy His own need for justice because of our sins. Now, we have been justified by Jesus, sanctified by Jesus, cleansed of our sins by Jesus, and we have life because of Jesus, and we will live forever because of Jesus for he will change us, but Jesus is always the same.