Immutability
“I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons Df Jacob ore not consumed.” Mal. iii. 6.
The Unchangeahleness of Ood. “What an anchor for the storm-tossed I” Change is our portion here!” Scenes are altering. Joys are fading. Friends I some of them are removed to a distance — others have gone to the longest home of all I “Who, amid these chequered 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 harbour.
“I CHANGE NOT I” Heart and flesh may faint — yea, 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 canDot alter Him i AYhen?^;eare depressed, downcast, fluctuating, our treacherous hearts turning aside “like a broken bow” — He is without one ‘’shadow of turning.” ‘^ Ood who cannot lie, ^’’ i?> the superscription on His eternal throne; and inscribed on all his dealings.
“I change not P^ For whom does He span the darkened sky with this Bow of comfort? It is for ‘’ THE SONS OF Jacob,” His own covenant people. Those clothed like Jacob of old, in the garment of the true ‘’^ Elder Brother through whom they have obtained their spiritual inheritance.
Precious name I 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 JSon! “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 ‘in an changeful, vacillating, as myself, long ere 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 saith the LordP He is without any variableness. Yes! in this dark and cloudy day I will lift up mine eyes to the covenant token, and sing through my tears, ‘■^ Happy is he that hath THE God OF Jacob for his help — whose hope is in the Lord his GodJ^