Peanut Butter and Jelly
- notpopular110
- Jun 23, 2017
- 3 min read
Things change. I’ve always liked peanut butter and jelly but, throughout the years my taste in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches has changed. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches started out as just that, peanut butter and jelly. At some point when I was younger I only like peanut butter on my sandwich and that was the way I ate them for years. Until I got to high school and ate them every single day for lunch; sometime during my junior or senior year I started using jelly. And that’s how I ate them, equal amount of peanut butter, jelly, and bread. Then I got to college and once again I had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches most days. That’s when I started making my peanut butter and jelly with so much peanut butter and jelly that it would drip out of the sandwich. The thickness of the inside would be the same or thicker than the two pieces of bread. It was actually pretty good. And now I’ve reverted back to my nice even peanut butter and jelly sandwich with equal amounts of peanut butter, jelly, and bread.
Why am I writing about a sandwich? To make you hungry? No. Because sometimes I think of something so random and something I think is so pointless but I relate it to someone so out of this world. While talking to myself one day I said, “Wow, remember when I put a ton of PB &J on my sandwiches last year. And now I’m back to a normal amount. Weird how my habits change.” Then Hebrews 13:8 popped into my brain. “My sandwich preferences change but God never does.” Unlike our eating habits, God never changes. The Bible says, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” When I was younger I thought this Bible verse was so pointless. Like, SO WHAT. But I didn’t understand the Bible verse. You may be thinking, “Wait there are plenty of things that the Bible people did that we no longer do as Christians.” And you may be right, some events in the New Testament fulfilled things said and done in the Old Testament, like how we no longer have to sacrifice lambs because Jesus Christ, the paschal lamb, was sacrificed for our sins. And there are also things in the Bible that God still condemns, that modern day Christians have misinterpreted to say God is now okay with those things. But that is not what is meant by this verse.
God sees all sins as sins, which will never change. All sinners who do not believe in the trinity and that Jesus Christ dies for their sins will die and go to hell that will never change. But the MOST important thing that will never change about God is his PROMISES. God promised to send His Son, and He did. God promised that Christ would come back and take all believers in him to a new heaven and a new earth, and he will. God’s promises are the same, yesterday and today and forever. God has already sent his son and because of that all believers are going to heaven, no ifs, ands, or buts. We do not have to be worried that by sinning God will revoke our salvation. We do not have to worry that if we don’t tell enough people about Christ; God will condemn us. We do not have to worry that staying home from church will suddenly close the pearly gates. God, in his mercy, gave us eternal life with only one requirement that we believe in Him. While our eating habits change, our friends change, and our life changes. God will never change. God will never go back on his word.
Malachi 3:6
“For I am the Lord—I do not change. That is why you are not already utterly destroyed, for my mercy endures forever.”