Revelation 1:8 Unchanging God
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,’ says the Lord, ‘who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty’” (NKJV).
The picture is of the main living space in a house of 150 to 200 years ago. Although we can recognize many things, they do seem strange to us. The heating for the house is right in the center, the fireplace. There was no furnace. The wood had to be cut, and the fire had to be tended. I’m sure the temperature in the house varied greatly according to how close one may have been to the fireplace. The sewing machine, which few houses have today, was run by a foot pedal instead of the electricity we use today. Oh, that’s right, there was no electricity then. The level of light in the house was not controlled by the flicking of a switch. The chairs don’t look to be very comfortable—no recliners in this house. I don’t mean to demean this house. It had all the modern equipment of the day. In the intervening years, homes have changed quite a bit.
There is one thing that hasn’t changed from that household and the modern household of today and will remain the same for as long as this earth may last. Our Lord and His love have always been and will always be the same—from eternity past to eternity future. Not only does His love remain constant, but the method of showing it to the world largely remains the same. It’s passed on from person to person as in the words of Jesus in Matthew 22:39, “And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’” (NKJV). I said largely remains the same because there is the one magnificent difference—Jesus gave His life on Calvary to share the love of God with all of mankind at one time. He did it once for all time. It is up to us to make sure that all people, ALL PEOPLE, are made aware of His sacrifice, and He has asked us to do that by loving our neighbors as ourselves. Actions speak louder than words. A Christian life lived is much more effective than a Christian life spoken, but the best results happen when a Christian life is lived and spoken about as Paul says in Romans 10:14, “How can people have faith and ask him to save them, if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear, unless someone tells them?” (CEV) So, let us live a visible Christan life and speak freely about it.