IMMUTABILITY For I am the Lord,
I change not, therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. Malachi 3 verse 6 The unchangeableness of God,
what an anchor for a storm-tossed sea! Change is our portion here. 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 change not. Heart and flesh
may faint, yes, do faint and fail, but there is an unfainting,
unfailing, unvarying God. All the changes in the world
around 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 change not. 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. This hour he is the same as when
he spared not his own son. O, instead of wondering at my
trials, let me rather wonder That he has borne with me so
long! It is because 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. He is without any variableness.