Can you believe it is the year of our Lord 2025? Where has the century gone? The older you get the faster time seems to fly. You go to bed one night in High School, and wake up with a spouse, a kid, and a mortgage. You have a grown-up job and grown-up bills. And we can get hit with waves of nostalgia, waves of wanting to go back to the way things were.
Unfortunately, science hasn’t made that machine just yet. We must move forward one way or the other. Thankfully as we start a new year and set new goals, we can go forward knowing that Jesus is with us. He doesn’t change like the years. Hebrews 13:8-9 says, “8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do not be led away by strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by [ritual] foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.”
In theological circles call this is called the immutability of Jesus, that is, the unchanging nature of Jesus. This makes our faith reliable because the Jesus we read about in the scripture is the same one we have access to today. Jesus doesn’t follow any fads. Jesus doesn’t change with the times. Jesus is Jesus; yesterday, today, and forever.
Since Jesus DOESN’T change it means you CAN. As we head into a new year it’s a great time to assess how things are going for you. What areas need improvement? What areas need shoring up? And don’t forget to recognize the areas where you might be crushing it and keep up the hard work. Jesus came into the world to seek and save the lost. Jesus came into the world for the benefit of all humanity.
We can celebrate the New Year while also remembering that every day is a new opportunity to return to the God who never changes.