Mudança
A mudança é constante na vida, mas Deus é imutável. A Bíblia nos ensina a abraçar a transformação espiritual enquanto confiamos no Deus que é o mesmo ontem, hoje e sempre.
Deus é imutável
Jesus Cristo é o mesmo ontem, hoje e para sempre. Deus não muda — Ele é a rocha firme em meio às mudanças constantes da vida.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
"For I, Yahweh, have not changed, and you, O children of Jacob, have not perished.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Transformação em Cristo
Se alguém está em Cristo, é nova criação. Somos transformados de glória em glória à imagem do Senhor pelo poder do Espírito.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.
And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory into glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever he is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
who will transform our humble body to be conformed to his glorious body, in accordance with the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
Behold, I tell you a mystery: we will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
Arrependimento como mudança
Arrependei-vos, pois, e convertei-vos. O arrependimento é a mudança mais radical — da morte para a vida, do pecado para a graça.
Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as well!
Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out,
Tempos e ciclos
Para tudo há uma estação e um tempo para cada propósito debaixo do céu. Deus faz novas todas as coisas no tempo certo.
For everything there is an appointed time, a time for every matter under heaven:
A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth stands forever.
The sun rises, and the sun goes down;
to its place it hurries, and there it rises again.
The wind goes to the south and goes around to the north;
around and around it goes, and on its circuit the wind returns.
All the streams flow to the sea,
but the sea is never full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they continue to flow.
What has been—it is what will be;
what has been done—it is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun.
There is a thing of which it is said, "Look at this! This is new!"
But it already existed in ages past before us.
Look! I am about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts!
Do you not perceive it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,
rivers in the desert.
above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own desires and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued just as they have been from the beginning of creation." For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that the heavens existed long ago and the earth held together out of water and through water by the word of God, by means of which things the world that existed at that time was destroyed by being inundated with water. But by the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly people.