Eternally the Same

December 26

The Lord says of Himself that He is eternally the same. There is no difference in Him from everlasting to everlasting, He is the God who is unchanging. We don’t need to wonder if we are able to behave in a certain way or indulge certain thoughts. His Holy Book, the Bible is very specific as to what is and what is not acceptable to Him.

We don’t need to ponder the meaning of life or the value of the things of life. His unchanging value system has been clearly delineated for our perfect understanding. We who are finite sometimes ponder the meaning of life and the worth of our various experiences in an ever-changing world, but HE holds all things exactly as He has always esteemed them.

Our God, who still speaks to men today, once spoke to me as I challenged Him regarding the inequities that I observed among men. I said to Him, “God, how can You call Yourself ‘fair’ if some men are so rich and some men are so poor? If some men are so healthy while other men are so sick? If some men live long, fruitful lives while other men are snuffed out in their prime?"

I did not expect an answer from Him, but He interjected Himself into my mind with words, that although inaudible and unspoken were imprinted indelibly into my awareness. He said, “Christ is the equalizer.” Then He went on to explain to me exactly what He meant by that assertion.

He said, “The rich man who knows not Christ is impoverished spiritually in the midst of his plenty; the poor may who knows Jesus possesses treasure that is eternal. The well man who doesn’t know Jesus as Savior is suffering from the sickness of sin but can’t see his grievous sickness; the sick man who knows the saving grace of Jesus is whole and well despite the disease that’s destroying his body. The living man who hasn’t met the Giver of Life is dead even as he lives. The dead man who has embraced Jesus is alive for ever-more."

The entirety of God’s value system is embodied in those few words. As Derrek Prince, a godly and brilliant minister of the gospel and missionary to the lost stated very succinctly, “God will never sacrifice one moment of eternity for all of time."

No matter what you may be going through, no matter the condition of your physical body, your God would have you to know that He has not forsaken you; He is caring for your soul. If you are a believer in Christ, you are rich, you are whole, you are eternally alive because He is forever the same!