Today's Devotion: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (The Holy Bible : New International Version. electronic ed. Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 1996, c1984, S. Heb 13:8)

According to The Teacher's Commentary, our Christian faith stands or falls on the truth that is revealed by the Word of God, or scripture. When we are willing to accept that which God's Word proclaims and in response reach out to experience a relationship with Christ, then we begin to live by faith. In doing so, we accept truths that we cannot see, touch, or feel.

Today's Comments: It is those truths that we cannot see, touch, or feel, that create a dilemma for us in today's mainstream churches. We have become conditioned to accept only those things that we can see and experience. Rather than accept the truth of scripture, we leave God's Holy Word open to human interpretation and literary criticism. We excuse ourselves from obedience by rationalizing that we live in different times than those in which the Bible was written, and therefore the context of those biblical writings suggest that they no longer apply. If, as the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews states, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever", then His Word is also the same. It is not the Word that has changed, it is us. We need to return to that Word and its truths that exist for all time.