Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Heb. 13:8
Dear Jesus, I really don’t like change—especially hard to accept changes. I like newness, excitement, flourishing, and adventure. When it’s all said and done, I love to come home to the normal, comfortable, and predictable. I like things to get better, not bitter. But atrophy, disruption, and weakness were put into place a long time ago—in the very first garden—Eden. We are grateful there’s one part of our lives that will never change, and that is you, Jesus.
You are “the same yesterday, today, and forever”—the same beauty-abounding, truth-filled, and grace-overflowing Savior. That doesn’t make you predictable, and even less so manageable. But it does mean we can trust you without any reservations. Change doesn’t have sovereignty, only you do, Jesus.
Nothing is random. Everything is under your sight, reign, and purposes. Nothing shocks or surprises you. You will never say, “I didn’t see that one coming.” With you, disruption and decay ultimately lead to delight. What you do see coming is our coming life in the eternal, perfect Garden-World of the new heaven and new earth (Rev.21:1-22:6). Nothing will atrophy, only flourish.
My hearing aids won’t come with me in the new earth. Nothing will ache in my body or heart. I’ll never forget a name—or forget the Gospel, for even one second. My sadness and impatience with the aging process—mine and others, will be replaced with perfect joy and me being made perfect in love. I am SO looking forward to that, Jesus.
Until that Day, help each of us see and accept change as part of a far better story than we could/would ever write. Help us age well, not grumpily. Because you hold us tightly we can hold everything else lightly. So Very Amen
