"I am the Lord, I change not."—Malachi 3:6.
T 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.Man decays, and ages move;
But His mercy waneth never;
God is wisdom, God is love."
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