![]() “I am the Lord, I change not; therefore, ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” (Malachi 3:6) Now is not the time to give up, we serve a God that never changes, “the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8) Now is the time to be still, to put our eyes back on God, tie ourselves down to the boat, and ride the wave, because the same God that delivered us the time before, and the time before that, and the time before…! Well, the same God that never changes is the same God that will get us through this too. And it won’t be because we are good or bad, or have been obedient or disobedient; it will be because he changes not. “Oh! I can’t believe that I’m even still here, when I think of the sins I have committed, and the crimes which have crossed my wicked imagination. Yes, I am here, unconsumed, because the Lord changes not. Oh! had he changed, we should have been consumed in a dozen ways; if the Lord had changed, you and I should have been consumed by ourselves; for after all, Mr. Self is the worst enemy a Christian has. We should have proved suicides to our own souls; we should have mixed the cup of poison for our own spirits, if the Lord had not been an unchanging God. He would have knocked the cup out of our hands when we were about to drink it. Then we should have been consumed by God himself if he had not been a changeless God. We call God a Father; but there is not a father in this world who would not have killed all his children long ago, so provoked would he have been with them, if he had been half as much troubled as God has been with us. He has the most troublesome family in the whole world. We are unbelieving, ungrateful, disobedient, forgetful, rebellious, wandering, murmuring, and stiff-necked. Had he not been long-suffering, he would have taken not only the rod, but the sword to some of us long ago. But there was nothing in us to love at first, so, there cannot be less now.” Charles Spurgeon “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.” (Romans 5:6) Aren’t we glad that we serve a God that never changes? GiGi❤️
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