What comes to mind when you read this verse? What response does the truth of this verse evoke in you? Does it resonate, or is it easy to glance over? I have read this verse many times and I have spoken and prayed this verse and as I read it again, I have to be honest, I was tempted to rush through it because I knew it. Because it was familiar to me, I figured that there was nothing new the Lord could possibly reveal to me. I was wrong.
Sometimes familiarity breeds a level of ease to dismiss things we have gotten used to seeing, experiencing or hearing. Kind of like the boy who cried wolf. The villagers had heard the boy mess around so many times, that when the real thing happened, everyone felt comfortable dismissing it. It is similar in that when you see and hear something regularly it can become easy to not actively pay attention. For some of us the truth about who Jesus really is has become so ordinary to us and that’s dangerous. Can you imagine, the creator the entire universe is ordinary? Impossible right, and yet we sometimes speed through His word like we know all there is to know.
He wasn’t ordinary at the beginning of time and he’s not ordinary now. He still does the impossible. He still heals, still delivers, still provides, still protects. He is still the shield at our right hand, our defender, the one who never leaves us. He is still able to provide for us and carry us and bless us and take us through the kingdom of darkness and bring us into the kingdom of the Son He loves. He’s the same Jesus!
The truth is Jesus should become more real to us the more we hear and read about Him, not less real. That fact should always ignite praise from our souls because in a world that changes second by second, we have a Saviour that NEVER CHANGES.
by Kalesha Peters
