God Unchanging

Taken from a book Knowing God Chapter 7. My Book Review :)

Two Different World
As we read the bible, we get to read God dealing with people like Abraham, Moses, David and the rest of them thousand years ago.
We also get to read about Jesus Christ doing miracles, arguing with Jews, dying for sinners, rising from death and ascending to heaven.
It all seems very far away.
We even may think it all belongs to the world, not to this world.

It is true that in terms of space, time and culture, and the historical epoch to which they belonged, are very far away from us.
So how can the past links up to the world now?

The link is God himself.
The exact same God whom they had to so in the past thousand years and the same God with whom we have to do now.
God does not change in the least particular and is the truth of God's immutability. (unchangeable, changeless)

1. God's life does not change.
In Jeremiah 10:10, the verse says - But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God, the eternal King.

Psalm 102:26-27 - They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded.
But you remain the same, and your years will never end.

God did not need to be made, for He is always there. He exists forever, and He always the same.
He created things have a beginning and an ending, but not so for the Creator.
-God is already perfect.
-He does not grow old
-He does not gain new powers nor lose those that He once had.
-He does not get stronger, or weaker, or wiser, at time goes by.

The difference between God the Creator and creatures(us) is that we, creatures are mutable and nature admits of change where by we will grow old, will go weaker etc... at times goes by.
Whereas God is immutable and can never cease to be what He is.

2.God's character does not change.
In course of a human life, we change radically, in terms of our taste, outlook and temper. A kind person may turns bitter.
A person's good-will may grow cynical (Distrustful) and maybe callous (Emotionally hardened; unfeeling)

But nothing of this sort happens to God
* He never become LESS trustful, or merciful, or faithful and gracious than used to be.
The Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, forgiving wickedness, rebellion in sin.
Yet God discipline and punishes the children, he does not leave the guilty unpunished.
The character of God is today, and always be exactly what it was in the Bible.

3.God's truth does not change
We people sometimes say things differently to express to the same topic or a thing, simply because our view changes. We find that we can no longer stand to the words we have said in the past.
We sometimes even recall our words, because we ceased to express what we think.
The words of human being are unstable.

But not so for the words of God.
The word of God stand forever.
No circumstances no change of His own thinking will prompt him or to amend (to change for the better, improvement) to rectify (to remove or correct faults) in his words.

Psalm 119:89- Your word, O Lord, is eternal, it stands FIRM in the heavens

The word 'firm' in the verse carries out the idea of stability in God's word.

Every word God's says in the bible throughout generations, so long as this world last, it last forever.

John 10:35- The word of God came and the scripture cannot be broken.

4. God's way and purpose do not change
God still continue to bless those whom He love and people who humble themselves.
Hates the sins of his people, discipline and punish us from compromise and disobedience.
Teachers us believers to value God's promised, pray persistently so on before God bestow them.

God's aims, principle of action still remain consistent, God's dealing with his people in the scripture record is still how God deals with us still.

Psalm 33:11- But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations

God's plan are made on the basis of a complete knowledge and control extend to the past, present and future.

Bible, the living word of God.
The first Bible will be the last. God has already planned in the beginning when the world has formed till revelation whereby the believers of God will be lifted to heaven and to be reconcile with Him in his heavenly throne.

God's son does not change
Hebrew 13:8- Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
-He never change, it still remain true that those people who come to Him will be save completely. And he lives to intercede for us.

Hebrew 7:25- Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

Conclusion- So where is the sense of distance and difference between Bible times and believers now?
Remember, God does not change. So let us continue to fellowship with Him, trust His word, live by faith and to stand on the promises of God forever.