Shopping for Better

"In the beginning, oh Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain. They will all wear out like a garment. You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment, they will be changed. But you remain the same and your years will never end." Hebrews 1: 10-12

These three verses struck me today. I've been working on memorizing Hebrews, but I've not done a good job of really meditating on what so much of this can mean in our lives. For example, this passage. Obviously, it's speaking of the new heaven and new earth that will come to be at the return of Christ. However, I started to ponder the author's decision to use this clothing imagry. We see this imagry other places in scripture, most notably discussions of becoming a new creation, throwing off the old self (Col. 3:8-10).

I began to think about the society we live in, one that is so fraught with materialism. We don't know, most of the time, what it means to have an item of clothing for so long that it literally wears out. But we do get tired of what we have and try to trade it in for something better. We can't do that with Jesus. There is NOTHING BETTER. He doesn't wear out. He doesn't get soiled. The world we know will wear out, but the One who created it all will never change!