Our Right Now God

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (Heb 13:8)

What confidence we have in the unchanging Jesus Christ. As He met us yesterday, so He is with us right now, and will meet us tomorrow and tomorrow’s eternity. He will not be different in His affections, abilities, promises, purposes, or actions. We can always count on and depend on Him.

If He were the God of only yesterday, then we would have no hope for today. If He were only the God of Eternity, then while we would have a future hope, help for today would be elusive. If He were only the God of today, then without a record of His attributes, faithfulness, and active love towards us, and no promise of tomorrow, our dependence upon Him would be hindered.

However, we have a yesterday of His dealings with His chosen, a record of His actions, faithfulness, active love, attributes, and promises. We have a today in which to reflect upon Him, call upon Him, depend upon Him, and experience Him, knowing that He has not changed nor will He ever change. We also have a tomorrow in which He will be the same as He was yesterday, today, and for every tomorrow there will ever be.

We need a God today who is active today, available today, caring today, faithful today, dependable today and who was all that yesterday. We need a God who is unchanging in His attributes, His love, His purposes, His promises, and His character and who will be the same way tomorrow. We need a God who will shepherd us until we depart this life and who will then usher us into the timelessness of eternity, where we will live in His presence forever. He was with us yesterday, He is with us right now, He will be with us tomorrow, and forever. He is our right now God.

"Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts …" (Heb 3:15)