Morning, November 2
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“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.” Whatever 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.”