Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews 13:8

The only thing constant in this world is change.
Have you heard this before?
It’s a quote attributed to the ancient Greek Philosopher named Heraclitus.  

And it feels really, really true.
Nothing stays the same.
We’re in the midst of the transition of seasons here in Minnesota and each day there are trees with less leaves, there are some with more color than the day before, and there are some still hanging onto their green.
The sun is always moving from east to west.
Projects begin and finish.
Days we long for come and go.
Children keep growing and reaching new milestones.
Illness continues to take it’s toll.
People we love die.
Through all of it – life goes on.
When we feel like it shouldn’t be possible for life to go on when it’s so different than yesterday, it still does.
Even when life isn’t filled with huge changes, when it feels kind of routine, we look back and it’s all different.

The only constant in this world is change.
So this verse has a different kind of power.
A different kind of hope.
Because no matter how much things change.
No matter what things happen that make today feel like light years away from yesterday,
Jesus never changes.

Jesus is the one constant in this world.
How we know him changes.
How we understand him changes.
How we experience him changes.
But Jesus does not change.
Who Jesus is never changes.

“Jesus is the same yesterday and today and forever”

To me, this provides great comfort, especially in the midst of change.
Unwanted change or change I have sought.  
It is all difficult.  
It is all disorienting.
But all the things I have known to be true about Jesus in my life don’t go away when the rest of my life is in transition.

So I can remind myself about those things with the promise in this verse:
Jesus seeks me the same yesterday and today and forever
Jesus leads me the same yesterday and today and forever
Jesus weeps with me the same yesterday and today and forever
Jesus cares what happens to me the same yesterday and today and forever
Jesus is with me the same yesterday and today and forever
Jesus frees me the same yesterday and today and forever
Jesus forgives me the same yesterday and today and forever
Jesus renews me the same yesterday and today and forever
Jesus loves me the same yesterday and today and forever

The only constant in this world might be change, but we have an unchanging God.

And for that we give thanks.