JESUS CHRIST THE SAME

 

EVENING DEVOTON

NOVEMBER 16

 

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ the same 

 

Immutability is one of the essential perfections of Jehovah.

 

He claims it as his right.

 

He presents it as a source of comfort to his people, when he says, “I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.”

 

But the Lord Jesus is immutable, because he is divine.

 

He changes not.

 

He is the same in all the glories of his person—in all the purposes of his heart—in all the doctrines of his gospel—in the greatness of his love—in the omnipotence of his power—in the tenderness of his sympathy—in the merit of his blood—and in his hatred to sin.

 

Is Jesus immutable? Then let us adore him as divine.

 

Let us trust him with implicit confidence.

 

Let us hold fast the precious truths of his holy gospel.

 

Let us seek comfort in him, when our earthly gourds wither, and all our cisterns are broken.

 

He is the same in darkness as in the light.

 

When we are cast down, as when we are filled with joy.

 

He is always Jesus, the Saviour; the kind, the condescending, the faithful, the tender Saviour.

 

He is the same to-night, as when we first tasted his love; and as when our hearts danced at the sound of his name.

 

His purpose and love are the same,

Whatever the changes I find,

A trifle may alter my frame,

But nothing unsettles his mind.

 

James Smith