November 2, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"I am the Lord, I change not." — Malachi 3:6 · KJV

It is well for us that, amid all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot touch — One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can carve no furrows. All else has changed; all things are changing. The sun itself grows dim with age; the world is waxing old; the folding up of the worn-out garment has begun; the heavens and earth must soon pass away — they shall perish, they shall wax old as does a garment; but there is One who alone has immortality, of whose years there is no end, and in whose person there is no change. The delight the sailor feels when, after being tossed about for many a day, he steps again onto solid shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when, amid all the changes of this troubled life, he rests the foot of his faith on this truth: "I am the Lord, I change not." The stability an anchor gives a ship when it has at last found a hold is like that which the Christian's hope affords when it fixes itself on 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 always 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, and when all earthly things 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 ever busy; man decays, and the ages move; but His mercy never wanes — God is wisdom, God is love.