November 2

“I am the Lord, I change not.” — Malachi iii. 6.

IT is well for us that, amidst all the variabkness of m’ life, there is One whom change cannot aifect; 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 3hange. The delight which the mariner feels, when, after saving been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon :he 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 — “/ am the Lord, I change not.”

The stability which the anchor gives the ship when it haa 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.” Whatever His attributes were of old, they are now; His power. His wisdom. His justice, His truth, are alike unchanged. 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 meltec” m the last conflagration, His love will still wear the dew of its youth. Precious is the assurance that He changes not 1 TLd wheel of providence revolves, but its axle is eternal lovoi

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