"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day, yea and for ever." Hebrews 13:8


As another year is upon us, I wonder if the above scripture is applicable to us in anyway. The past has just been left in the wind, never to return. Are we the same yesterday, today or forever? The things that we did yesterday which were right, will we carry them into this year? The same statement can be made in the reverse, will we carry the bad with us too?
I have heard it said by some before that due to the changing times or modern ways of man that things also change. I once heard someone use this argument to justify women preaching or usurping authority over men in worship, saying that things and times have changed. Hebrew 13:8 states categorically that God does not change, he is the same yesterday, today and forever.
As Christians we are required to live righteously yesterday, today and forever. We often fall short, but we are covered by the blood of Jesus Christ who died for our sins.
We view days differently than God, in fact, Psalms 90:4 states in reference to God that, "For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night". We have no control over our destiny, but what we do have is now. We have the chance now to make right with God, to follow his commands and live a righteous life.
This is a new year, the past is the past. Let's take the following message with us from Phillippians 3:12-14:


 "Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.Brethren, I could not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do , forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."