“I, the Lord, do not change” (Mal. 3:6).
One of the saint’s most egregious sins is lack of trust in God. Many churchmen can look back in their lives and see how He protected and delivered them. Nonetheless, they experience great difficulty when they attempt to apply His past beneficence to their present or future concerns. They are so thoroughly human and mutable that they neglect to believe that He is so Godlike and immutable.
Your attitudes and actions challenge your verbal acknowledgment of God’s covenant that He does not change. Christians quite quick to measure God by man’s standards therefore His immutability escapes their appreciation and full acceptance. As Samuel advised Saul, “The Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind” (I Sam. 15:29).
Why would God ever want or need to change? Can you conceive of any legitimate reason? Remember, no new information ever reaches God’s ears and it cannot. Why? God knows all things before they occur. He is perfect. He cannot become better, wiser, gentler or more powerful. He has no capacity within Him to be improved or deproved. He is perfect.
God’s unchangeableness is one of His many encouraging promises. Paul acquaints all of his readers with the verity of God’s assurances when he writes saying, “For as many as may be the promises of God, in Him they are yes; wherefore also by Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us” (II Cor. 1:20).
Your finiteness should never be entitled to define God’s infinity: “Great is our Lord, and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite” (Ps. 147:5). Do not allow your anxiousness about today or tomorrow cause you to stumble over an indisputable Biblical assurance.
Twenty-five years pass from the moment God promised Abraham a child until Isaac was born. Did God change during that quarter of a century? No. Did Abraham change? Yes. Nearly one hundred and twenty years elapsed from the season when God saved Moses from the crocodile infested Nile until God took him to the top of Pisgah on Mount Nebo and showed Moses the land of promise. Did God change? No. Did Moses? Very definitely.
God does not change. He cannot be convinced or negotiated into changing. You cannot parlay or pay God to change. The constitution of His character does not capacitate change. He cannot be what He is not. He is not changeable and therefore cannot be changed.
What an striking comfort is His immutability! “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever” (Heb. 13:8).
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