Wow! There is a lot that is changing around us! Changes are taking place in our government, with our leaders and our system of laws. Changes are taking place in our culture, with what is considered appropriate and what is tolerated. What was once considered a God-fearing nation (to some extent) now seems like a God-hating nation. Changes are taking place in our homes, in our schools, in our jobs, in everything around us. All of these changes sure create an abiding sense of instability and insecurity. Is there anything that can ground us and secure us and keep us calm in the midst of chaos? Consider this.
God doesn’t change. “I am the Lord, I do not change” (Mal. 3:6). “There is no variation or shadow of turning” with God (Jas. 1:17). “His purpose is unchangeable” (Heb. 6:17).
Jesus doesn’t change. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb. 13:8). “Like a cloak You will fold them up, and they will be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not fail” (Heb. 1:12). Jesus is “Him who is and who was and who is to come” (Rev. 1:4).
The Bible doesn’t change. “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away” (Matt. 24:35). “The word of God…lives and abides forever…All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endures forever” (1 Pet. 1:23-25). “Contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). “You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it” (Deut. 4:2).
God’s plan for man’s redemption doesn’t change. “You are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another” (Gal. 1:6-7). “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 3:11). “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
God’s expectations of mankind don’t change. “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven” (Matt. 7:21). “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all” (Ecc. 12:13).
With so much changing around us, let us be thankful for, focused on, devoted to and sharing those eternal things of God which do not change.