I’m reflecting on the CONSISTENCY of Jesus. He’s the same “yesterday, today, and forever.”

That consistency is a reflection of His INTEGRITY.

I never have to worry that the Jesus I meet today is going to be somehow different when I encounter Him tomorrow. I can always depend on Him to follow through with whatever He says. The secret thoughts of His heart are never different than the public statements He makes. He’s not one person on Sunday morning and a different person on Monday!

Jesus is never fragmented.

Christ is always completely whole and entirely consistent. The words of His lips, and the behavior of His life, are always in complete agreement with one another.

What He talked, He walked.

Our hypocrisy reveals the broken areas of our life.

What is hypocrisy other than the fact that there is inconsistency within us but we want the world to think we’re whole? We’re broken but we don’t want anyone to know it!

The human race has bought into the idea that projecting an exalted image of ourself is enough. Social media has been built on this platform. Appearances are everything.

Have you ever noticed the Bible never tries to hide the flaws of its greatest Saints? God knows full well that we’re inconsistent and He never tries to hide it!

 

Inconsistency in the life of the believer

The consistency between our public and private life is a great measuring stick of where we are spiritually.

If you look at the life of David he showed a remarkable godly consistency between his public and private life until the time of Bathsheba. Not only did David betray his own values, but he engaged in a massive cover up scheme to hide the truth about his behavior. As he did so his life began to unravel!

When the public and private areas of David’s life became disconnected and at odds with one another it was the beginning of David’s downfall.

Sin always ends up destroying wholeness, integrity, and godly consistency.

The reason Jesus is utterly consistent is because He is completely sinless.

As we become more like Jesus, being changed into His likeness, His objective in us is to make us entirely consistent with the life of Christ in us.

That’s what true wholeness is.

“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8