Every headline screams change. Trends flip overnight, opinions shift by the hour, and even our own hearts can feel like moving targets. In the middle of all that, Hebrews 13:8 quietly reminds us that there is One who never shifts, never drifts, never evolves into something different. The Jesus who walked the dusty roads of Galilee, who died and rose again, who saved the saints before us—that same Jesus stands unchanged over your life today and over every tomorrow still to come.

The Same Savior in Every Season

Think back to the moments when you first really saw Jesus—maybe in a crisis, in a worship service, or quietly with an open Bible. The comfort you felt then is not some relic of the past; it flows from a living Person who does not change. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). The One who met Mary in her grief, Thomas in his doubts, and Peter in his failure is the same One who meets you in whatever season you’re in right now.

Because He does not change, His saving power does not fade with time or wear down with your struggles. “Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them” (Hebrews 7:25). Your weakness today does not cancel His strength; your inconsistency does not dent His faithfulness. You are not depending on a memory of who Jesus used to be, but on the living, unchanging Savior who still saves, still forgives, still restores.

Unchanging Truth in a Shifting Culture

If Jesus is unchanging, then what He has said does not expire when the culture decides it should. His words are not old furniture we outgrow; they are the firm ground beneath our feet. He warned us, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away” (Matthew 24:35). That means His commands, His promises, and His definitions of right and wrong remain true even when they are unpopular—or costly.

This is why we cannot treat Scripture like a buffet line, picking what fits our feelings and leaving what doesn’t. “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12). The same Word that comforted saints in prison, on mission fields, and in hidden house churches is meant to cut through our excuses and realign us today. When we let His unchanging truth confront us, it also steadies us in a world that can’t stop moving.

Confidence for Today, Hope for Forever

Because Jesus does not change, you can face today without wondering if God woke up in a different mood about you. “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow” (James 1:17). Your circumstances swing, your emotions dip and rise, but His heart toward His children stays fixed—holy, wise, loving, and good. That is the soil where real peace grows.

And His unchanging nature secures not just your present, but your eternity. God declares, “I am the Alpha and the Omega … who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty” (Revelation 1:8). The Jesus who saved you by His blood will be the same Jesus who welcomes you home and reigns forever. So as you step into the uncertainties of this day, you’re not walking toward a fog; you’re walking toward the faithful, familiar face of the One who has never changed and never will.

Lord Jesus, thank You that You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. Help me live today with courage and obedience, trusting Your unchanging Word and following You with all my heart.

INTO NINE WORDS, having altogether but eleven syllables, Luke packs a world of universal truth: "Being let go, they went to their own company" (Acts 4:23).

Every normal man has a "company," however small, where he feels at home and to which he will return when he is tired of being alone. The important thing about a man is not where he goes when he is compelled to go, but where he goes when he is free to go where he will. The apostles went to jail, and that is not too revealing because they went there against their will; but when they got out of jail and could go where they would they immediately went to the praying company. From this we learn a great deal about them. The choices of life, not the compulsions, reveal character.

A man is absent from church Sunday morning. Where is he? If he is in a hospital having his appendix removed his absence tells us nothing about him except that he is ill;but if he is out on the golf course, that tells us a lot. To go to the hospital is compulsory; to go to the golf course, voluntary. The man is free to choose and he chooses to play instead of to pray. His choice reveals what kind of man he is. Choices always do.

The difference between a slave society and a free one lies in the number of free acts possible in each as compared with acts of compulsion. No society is wholly slave, as none is wholly free, but in a free society the voluntary choices are at a maximum and the acts of compulsion relatively few. In the slave society the proportions are exactly reversed.

The true character of a people is revealed in the uses it makes of its freedoms. The slave peoples do what they are told because they are not free to do what they will. It is the free nation that reveals its character by its voluntary choices. The man who "bowed by the weight of centuries . . . leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground" when the long day's work is over is glad to get home to supper and to bed; he has little time for anything else. But in those fortunate lands where modern machinery and labor unions have given men many free hours out of every day and at least two free days out of every week, they have time to do almost anything they will. They are free to destroy themselves by their choices, and many of them are doing just that.

There is always danger that a free nation may imperil its freedom by a series of small choices destructive of that freedom. The liberty the fathers won in blood the sons may toss away in prodigality and debilitating pleasures. Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

In the realm of religion right choices are critically important. If we Protestant Christians would retain our freedom we dare not abuse it, and it is always to abuse freedom when we choose the easy way rather than the harder but better way. The casual indifference with which millions of Protestants view their God-blessed religious liberty is ominous. Being let go they go on weekends to the lakes and mountains and beaches to play shuffleboard, fish and sun bathe. They go where their heart is and come back to the praying company only when the bad weather drives them in. Let this continue long enough and evangelical Protestantism will be ripe for a take-over by Rome.

The Christian gospel is a message of freedom through grace and we must stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. But what shall we do with our freedom? The Apostle Paul grieved that some of the believers of his day took advantage of their freedom and indulged the flesh in the name of Christian liberty. They threw off discipline, scorned obedience and made gods of their own bellies. It is not difficult to decide which company such as these belonged to. They revealed it by the company they kept.

Our choices reveal what kind of persons we are, but there is another side to the coin. We may by our choices also determine what kind of persons we will become. We humans are not only in a state of being, we are in a state of becoming; we are on a slow spiral moving gradually up or down. Here we move not singly but in companies, and we are drawn to these companies by the attraction of similarity.

I think it might be well for us to check our spiritual condition occasionally by the simple test of compatibility. When we are free to go, where do we go? In what company do we feel most at home? Where do our thoughts turn when they are free to turn where they will? When the pressure of work or business or school has temporarily lifted and we are able to think of what we will instead of what we must, what do we think of then?

The answer to these questions may tell us more about ourselves than we can comfortably accept. But we had better face up to things. We haven't too much time at the most.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. - 1 John 4:18

You cannot love and fear the same person, unless the love is of a very rudimentary and imperfect character. But just as when you pour pure water into a bladder, the poisonous gases that it may have contained will be driven out before it, so when love comes in dread goes out. The river, turned into the foul Augean stables of the heart, will sweep out all the filth before it, and leave everything clear. The black, greasy smoke-wreath, touched by the fire of Christ’s love, will flash out into ruddy flame like that which has kindled them. And Christ’s love will kindle in your hearts, if you accept it, and apprehend it aright, a love which will burn up and turn into fuel for itself the now useless dread.

Inconsistent as the two emotions are in themselves, in practice, they may be united by reason of the imperfection of the nobler. And in the Christian life they are united with terrible frequency. There are many professing Christian people who live all their days with a burden of shivering dread upon their shoulders, and an icy-cold fear in their hearts, just because they have not got close enough to Jesus Christ, and kept their hearts with sufficient steadfastness under the quickening influences of His love, to have shaken off their dread as a sick man’s distempered fancies. A little love has not mass enough in it to drive out thick, clustering fears. There are hundreds of professing Christians who know very little indeed of that joyous love of God which swallows up and makes impossible all dread, who, because they have not a loving present consciousness of a loving Father’s loving will, tremble when they front in imagination, and still more when they meet in reality, the evils that must come, and who cannot face the thought of death with anything but shrinking apprehension. There is far too much of the old leaven of selfish dread left in the experiences of many Christians. " I feared thee because thou wert an austere man - and so, because I was afraid, I went and hid my talent, and did nothing for thee " - is a transcript of the experience of far too many of us. The one way to get deliverance is to go to Jesus Christ and keep close by Him.

There is only one wise thing to do, and that is to make clean work of getting rid of the occasion of dread, which is the fact of sin. Take all your sin to Jesus Christ; He will - and He only can - deal with it. He will lay His hand on you, as He did of old, with the characteristic word that was so often upon His lips, and which He alone is competent to speak in its deepest meaning. " Fear not, it is I," and He will give you the courage that He commands.

God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of "power, and of love, and of a sound mind." " Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba! Father," and cling to Him as a child who knows his father’s heart too well to be afraid of anything in his father, or of anything that his father’s hand can send.