Someone to Believe Inنموونە

The Times Are Changing

When we try to make sense of life in a broken world, the ground beneath us shifts. But when we look long and hard at Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, we stabilize.

When it comes to uncertainty, unbelief creeps in. When it comes to church hurt, we equate the failure of the church with the Savior. When we can’t see the outcome, we wonder if God is still working for our good. When it comes to suffering, we think God has forgotten us. But this is where Hebrews 13:8 connects to John 20:31. If Jesus Christ doesn’t change, then we have everything we need to believe in him. And no matter what life throws at us, he is worthy of our belief. Said another way, in an ever-changing world with its ever-changing characters, Jesus can’t change on us. This is precisely why he’s worth believing in over everything else we were believing in before.

In his Gospel, John points us to the Messiah who is utterly in control of his destiny—he is the resurrection and the life. He points us to the Shepherd who is compassionate and relentless in his pursuit of lost people. He points us to the Bread of Life, who is mighty to save, holds all power to heal, and is everything we need. But John doesn’t only want us to witness these traits of Christ, he wants us to believe them. To bank on them. To live like they’re true and they’ll never change. To be steadied by them when the ground cracks open and the winds pick up.

It’s not enough to just give mental assent to what you hear and read about Jesus. John says that your belief must change your expectations and your reality.

If Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then it serves us well to see how he is the same from beginning to end, too. Not just for all of Christian history, but in our individual histories too.

During the next few days, we’ll look at this unchanging Christ together, friends. As we peer through John’s lens, we will find Jesus to be exactly who he says he is: someone to believe in.