No Change Possible - Or Necessary

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." (James 1:17)

Now for God to alter or change at all, to be different from Himself, one of three things has to take place:

1. God must go from better to worse, or

2. He must go from worse to better, or

3. He must change from one kind of being to another.

Now that's so plain that anybody can follow it; there's nothing profound about that. (Occasionally somebody will say I preach over their head. All I can say is, they must have their head awfully low!) Isn't it reasonable to assume that if anything changes it has to change from better to worse, from worse to better or from one kind of thing to another?

Therefore, if God is to change, then God either has to get better or worse or different. But God can't go from better to worse, because God is a holy God. Because God is eternal holiness, He can never be any less holy than He is now. And of course, He can never be any more holy than He is no, because He is perfect just as He is. There will never be a change in God - no change is necessary!

There is a wonderful stability in this truth, Lord. Thank You for Your unchangeable perfection. Amen

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Eternally Unchanging

"Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us." (Hebrews 6:17-18)

The perfect and the absolute and the infinite God cannot become anything else but what He is.

If you remember that, it will help you in the hour of trial. It will help you at the time of death, in the resurrection and in the world to come, to know that all that God ever was, God still is. All that God was and is, God ever will be. His nature and attributes are eternally unchanging. I have preached about the uncreated selfhood of God; I'll never have to change or edit it in any way ... I go back over some of my old sermons and articles, and I wonder why I wrote them like that. I could improve them now. But I can't improve on the statement that God is always the same - He is self-sufficient, self-existent, eternal, omnipresent and immutable. There would be no reason to change that because God changes not. His nature, His attributes, are eternally unchanging.

Thank You, Lord, for the strong consolation and hope that is based upon the immutability of Your counsel and the unchangeableness of Your nature. Amen

~A. W. Tozer~