Devotional Life
The Same Yesterday, Today & Forever
How do you define “Boring”?
For most of us we are bored when things stay the same
When all our days run into each other,
everyday seems to be the same old, same old
When we get tired of the same old thing we cry out for change
America in 2020 is crying out for change
We are destroying our monuments that remind us of yesterday
We want to remove or erase our history so we can rewrite it our way
Don’t rewrite history to create your own freedom
Change is good when we change to be the same as Christ
His unchanging nature has never been or ever will be boring
Your freedom does not come from changing everything around you
But by a change in you
The Book of Hebrews warns of becoming bored and rewriting history
Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:7-8
History Has Great Value
The Same Yesterday, Today & Forever
How do you define “Boring”?
For most of us we are bored
when things stay the same.
When all our days run into each other,
everyday seems to be the same old,
same old.
When we get tired of the same
old thing, we cry out for change.
America in 2020 is crying out for change.
We are destroying our monuments
that remind us of yesterday.
We want to remove or erase our
history so we can rewrite it our way.
Over 30 years ago, I took my
family to the New England States…
The rich heritage and
founding of this great nation.
I remember how shocked I
was at what I saw and heard.
There was a tour we had taken to
hear and see our nation’s history.
The tour guide seemed
bent on rewriting history.
All I had learned in school this
man mocked and made jokes of.
I don’t think he said one positive thing
about the monuments, statures and
places of history we went to.
Every great historic leader he talked about,
he took the liberty to tell us of the
roamers of affairs, cheating, greed and slander.
I was sick and angry as he made a mockery
and joke of the founding of our nation.
I know all have sin, no man or women,
no matter how much good they
have done, is without faults.
Sadly, we get bored with the same old, same old.
We want to rewrite history and most of
the time we tear it down because we want
to make room for our personal freedom.
Freedom that does not respect our past
or the people of the past, will not
respect the people today or tomorrow.
There is no freedom without respect.
The Book of Hebrews warns of
becoming bored and rewriting history.
Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you.
Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews 13:7-8
History has great value…
Because we can see the outcome
of those who have gone before us.
History reveals the good, the bad and the ugly.
We are to remember our leaders
who spoke the Word of God.
The Bible has had no problem showing the
strength and weakness of Godly leaders.
God’s Word does not throw out
the baby with the bathwater.
History is to hold us accountable.
Look at Jesus’ words as He
warns Korazin and Bethsaida…
"Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.
Luke 10:13-14
Every generation is to build on the
successes and failures of the past,
not destroy it so we can rewrite history.
Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday and today and forever.
He does not change.
In your devotional time beware of becoming
bored with God’s unchanging nature.
As you spend time with God…
Don’t try to change history or change God.
Freedom does not come by changing your history.
Freedom comes by you changing today.
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.
Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;
the old has gone, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:16-18
The message you study in your devotional
time is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
You may wear different cloths
and travel by different means…
But the message of Christ stays the same.
When our yesterdays, today and
tomorrows seem boring...
Don’t rewrite history to create your own freedom.
Change is good when we
change to be the same as Christ.
His unchanging nature has never
been or ever will be boring.
Because your freedom does
not come from changing everything
around you, but by a change in you.
Dear friends, now we are children of God,
and what we will be has not yet been made known.
But we know that when he appears,
we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.
1 John 3:2-3
Scripture Reading
Hebrews 13:7-8 NIV
7 Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Revelation 21:5-7 KJV
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new . And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
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