He Changes Not

“For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” -Malachi 3:6 KJV
These words are sweet comfort to the Lord’s people who live in this changing world. To keep us from getting too comfortable in ourselves and our situations, our wise God “stirs the nest.” “As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him” (Deuteronomy 32:11-12).
Like the eagle, who stirs the nest of her young ones removing some of the soft feathered outer lining to expose the sharper sticks below, the Lord does changes things so that we remember that we can only trust Him. He rearranges our comfortable little “nests.” All human comfort and confidence fails. He brings us into situations and circumstances in which we are made to know that He alone is our Strength and our Salvation. Like the eaglet out of the comfortable nest and fearfully seeking to fly with its mother, we feel our weakness and frailty.
Our confidence in self and in others diminishes and we are drawn back to the wing of Him who changes not. God’s immutability is again our refuge. He never changes in His love for His people. He never changes in His covenant promises to them. He never changes in His faithfulness to them. He never changes their standing before Him because He has brought them by His grace into an unchangeable state of justification before Him in Christ. They are redeemed by the blood of Christ and cannot be unredeemed. They are saved with an everlasting salvation, made the righteousness of God in Christ and much more.

So whatever “change” is or has taken place in the lives of His believing people, our God hasn’t and won’t! Rest in that thought; it is why we will not be consumed! As the hymn writer wrote, “Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou who changest not, abide with me.”


-Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard
Sovereign Grace Baptist Church, Jacksonville North Carolina USA
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