God Changes Not!

“I am the Lord, I change not.”

Malachi 3:6 Descendants of Jacob, I am the LORD All-Powerful, and I never change. That's why you haven't been wiped out,


[It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows. All things else have changed-all things are changing. The sun itself grows dim with age; the world is waxing old; the folding up of the worn-out vesture has commenced; the heavens and earth must soon pass away; they shall perish, they shall wax old as doth a garment; but there is One who only hath immortality, of whose years there is no end, and in whose person there is no change. The delight which the mariner feels, when, after having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when, amidst all the changes of this troublous life, he rests the foot of his faith upon this truth-”I am the Lord, I change not.”]

Oh, how the Lord speaks to my heart through Charles Spurgeon. As I read the above paragraph I kept saying, over and over, "Praise God"! With Autumn upon us and the leaves are once again falling to the ground it tells of another change. Does God of Creation change? No. Please read this words of Charles Spurgeon over and over a couple times, the satisfaction of a Christian when, amidst all the changes of this troublous life, he rests the foot of his faith upon this truth-”I am the Lord, I change not.”

[The stability which the anchor gives the ship when it has at last obtained a hold-fast, is like that which the Christian’s hope affords him when it fixes itself upon this glorious truth. With God “is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” What ever his attributes were of old, they are now; his power, his wisdom, his justice, his truth, are alike unchanged.]

I love Spurgeon's reference to the anchor. In a couple programs that the God's Love Outreach Ministry has presented this year, I have sung the song "The Anchor Holds" by Ray Boltz. One verse in the song goes like this:

"I have fallen on my knees
as I faced the ragging seas
the anchor holds
in in spite of the storm"

See God is telling His wounded through this song, "What ever you are up against I am there with you!

[He has ever been the refuge of his people, their stronghold in the day of trouble, and he is their sure Helper still. He is unchanged in his love. He has loved his people with “an everlasting love”; he loves them now as much as ever he did, and when all earthly things shall have melted in the last conflagration, his love will still wear the dew of its youth. Precious is the assurance that he changes not! The wheel of providence revolves, but its axle is eternal love.

“Death and change are busy ever,
Man decays, and ages move;
But his mercy waneth never;
God is wisdom, God is love.”]

My friends what do you know personally that can compare to the above words by Charles Spurgeon? For me I can truthfully say, nothing! That is why it is so important for all the people that I meet can understand through me the words from this great hymn;

What a friend we have in Jesus
all our sins and griefs to bear
what a privilege to carry
everything to God in prayer!

From God's heart, to mine, to yours,
Ed Shagott