We may link verse 8 with verse 7. ‘Consider them which have the rule over you’; what was the purpose of their way of life, their work for the Lord.
Here is stability; here is true comfort, and peace in the soul. We know we have life and we know that we face constant future needs. We cannot see how those needs will be met, but one thing we are sure of: the Lord is with us. He is not weak as we are; he is not limited in knowledge as we are. He is above and beyond time and not subject to its limitations, indeed he created time. The future is the perfect opportunity to trust him, to rely on his knowledge and control of all events which infinitely exceed our own. This is our way of handling the future, of coming to terms with it. We trust him moment by moment as we face each new experience, and our trust is directed towards the largely unknown future for it is there that we are most ineffectual and Christ is sovereign. The future is not totally unknown for we have been given sight of the great landmarks of the future, which are sufficient to assure us that he will never leave us or forsake us, but we do not know the detail of how it will come about.
He is still full of love. This is seen in the resurrection appearances of Christ. He is risen, he is appearing to his disciples he is not yet ascended into heaven, but now he has suffered and died, and purchased his people, and conquered death and hell. Satan is just now waiting until his second coming to be judged. But notice in those resurrection appearances how familiar he is with the disciples, how kind he is. He goes and meets them and moves among them just as he always did before his death on Calvary when he was with them on earth because he doesn't change. You might think, now he has conquered and he is King of kings and Lord of lords, he would be remote and distant and authoritative, but no. One of the great purposes of those resurrection appearances is to show his continuing personal affection for each one and his kindness and friendship. He is still dealing with each one of his children as though we were the only one. How can we fear things when you have such a Saviour? How can we compromise? He is the same yesterday today and forever and he’ll take us to glory and we will see him in his amazing glory.
If it were possible to be embarrassed in heaven, then surely we would be embarrassed at the sight of Christ. We would be amazed at him, but we would be so ashamed that we never grasped on earth just how great and glorious he is. But when we see him as we shall in glorified form somehow we will see all the Godhead in him and all the power of the Godhead in him. We will want to fall at his feet as dead, but we will be lifted out of this world, the place of shame and embarrassment, and we won't be able to feel quite as badly as that; we shall just marvel at him.
This verse should not be used to teach that nothing ever changes. The Old Testament priests are now gone; the Lord no longer requires the offering up of animal sacrifices in the temple; indeed, the earthly temple has been destroyed. God has a purpose and a plan and we see that plan unfolding before our eyes, and that necessarily means change from our finite perspective.