Yesterday, Today, and Forever:

Yesterday, Today, and Forever:

Hebrews puts this theme right in our hearts as we look at Christ who Is Yesterday, became man Today, and redeemed us Forever.  Note the preposition Is that reveals Christ as a Forever entity as God.  These words are spoken by the celebrant at the Easter vigil while he implants symbols into the Paschal Candle while speaking these words.  (Heb 13: 8).  

Look at the words of creation when God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”(Gn 1: 26).  No one knows when these words were spoken, only that it is presumed the Trinity is always in agreement within himself.  As in other articles, we believe that our salvation became official when Christ, through his Incarnation, assumed humanity and became the Today in Hebrews 13.

Our closest thoughts of realism about God’s desire to forgive humanity began the very instant that He pronounced these words when creating man.  It is the Forever that each of us must not take for granted.  If we use language that interprets human thoughts as our own interjection regarding creation, we may ask what about the day after what God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”  Just what is the image of God and an astounding question just what is his likeness?   

Certainly God is a total Spirit.  Of course the next question will be, “How will we be able to see God face to face?  When Moses would speak with God it was face to face, as one man speaks to another.”  (Ex 33: 11).  Then God says to Moses, “But my face you cannot see, for no man sees me and still lives.”  (Ex 33: 20).

“At  present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face.”  (! Cor 13: 12).  In a manner that is not discernable.  

This does not reveal what his Image is.  We see that God loves his creation of humanity and  there is nothing he will allow to disrupt that quality that is divine.   We should, as much as we are able, do the same.

What about his Likeness?  There is something that wasn;t revealed until God, in his Incarnation, showed us the way to eternal life.  Does that mean we need to follow the Passion of Christ and Sacrifice ourselves as he did?  The question is in your hands, and the solution is in your hearts to live just as Christ did; for our sins were forgiven by his Blood;  Are we mature enough spiritually to emanate the death of Christ for each other?  

Ralph B. Hathaway