Same Jesus.
This passage in Hebrews really strikes me, not because of my fondness of the Vicky Beeching song. Jesus is the same always he was in the past and he will still be in the future. I am afraid to say that I struggle with this! how can Jesus always be constant?
Being rather fond of the past and interested in science fiction of the future, This image of Jesus being constant interests me. It only takes a rudimentary study of history for anyone to discover that nothing except natural laws stays the same even when it seems so for as anything in its first era it is new then it is accepted then it is old. things have their lifespan. Jesus had a lifespan.. He was born he lived and loved he died he rose he's now with the father. So here is the kicker St. Paul how is he the same forever? what kind of Constancy is he trying to say here? His Grace? his love? his character? his nature? all of the above? but hold on a minute Paul is talking in a post resurrection world, Jesus has already risen by the time he is writing this.
As humans constancy is comforting we live in an ever changing world. God himself is Constant- he has to be because he is God, it would make much more sense to say God is Constant. perhaps he is alluding here to Jesus' divinity that as part of god he is therefore of God's nature. To me this passage is comforting not bceause of the constancy of Christ itself but the fact that therefore the Jesus in the Gospels is the same Jesus we can know now. My sheep know my voice... this makes the word of God all the more important because it is a window on Jesus Character in the Gospels and God's character. This is why the image I had for this passage was that of the bible the king James Version of the past, the message version in the present and the tablet version in the future, because ultimately there is prayer and there is God's Word, to truly know his nature.
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