The Unchangeableness Of GOD

Mal 3:6  For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

The UNCHANGEABLENESS of God. What an anchor for a storm tossed sea!

Change is our portion here on earth! Scenes are altering. Joys are fading.

Some friends are removed by distance; others have gone to their 'long home.'

Who, amid these checkered experiences, does not sigh for something permanent, stable, enduring?

The vessel has again and again slipped its earthly moorings. We long for some secure and sheltered harbor.

I am the LORD, I do not change! Heart and flesh may faint; yes, do faint and fail...but we have an unfainting, unfailing, unvarying God!

All the changes in the world around us cannot affect Him. Our own fitfulness cannot alter Him. 

When we are depressed, downcast, fluctuating, our treacherous hearts turning aside "like a broken bow," He is without one "shadow of turning."

God who cannot lie, is the superscription on His eternal throne; and inscribed on all His dealings.

I am the LORD, I do not change! Precious name! 

It forms a blessed guarantee that nothing can befall me but what is for my good.

I cannot doubt His faithfulness. I dare not arraign the rectitude of His dispensations.

It is covenant love which is now darkening my earthly horizon.

In this hour of my affliction, He is the same as when He "spared not His own Son!"

Oh, instead of wondering at my trials, let me rather wonder that He has borne with me so long!

It is of the Lord's unchanging mercies that I am not consumed.

Had He been man, changeful, vacillating, as myself long before now would He have spurned me away, and consigned me to the doom of the cumberer!

But, "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord."

I am the LORD, I do not change!

~John Macduff~