Today's Worship: Our unchanging God.

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in James 1:17,

 

"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows."

 

There certainly are many people who have heard these words from their spouse, "I've changed, we've grown apart, so I am leaving you." The relationship is broken and the two go their separate ways. What if God were like that? Where would that leave us? What if one morning we woke up to hear the Lord say, "I've changed, so I'm leaving you."? Or, "I've decided to do something different, you all can fend for yourselves." What a frightening thought!

 

How confident can we be that the wonderful gift of salvation has permanence? Can we know the love God has for us is an eternal love, something never to change, something that is the same today, tomorrow and forever?

 

God has spoken to us in the pages of Scripture because he wants us to know some things about him. Clearly, he expresses himself as being driven by two chief principles: justice and love. Whether it was God's revelation of himself to Moses on Mt. Sinai, or to the nation of Israel through the prophets as he prepared to judge the nation for turning its collective back on God, or the gospel accounts of Jesus and his ministry: God's justice and love are on full display.

 

Likewise there are other things God wants us to know about him. Among them, he wants us to be confident that he never changes. Our "Father of the heavenly lights..." "...does not change like shifting shadows." The love he has for us today will be ours to enjoy forever. The satisfaction of the payment Jesus made for our sins lasts an eternity. God considers those who have embraced him in faith as holy and blameless in his sight and this will never change.

 

Those who have responded to the gospel message have a place at his table and will never, ever be asked to leave! Along with the writer of Hebrews, may we all be convinced: "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." Hebrews 13:8.

 

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd love to hear from you!

Trevor Fisk
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