New here.. but had to share this.
"I am the Lord, I change not."
- Malachi 3:6
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."
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.
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."
Regards
Jim |
