God is Immutable.

Note - If you go down to June in the blog archives you will find additional info on the Immutability of God from a blog I wrote this past summer.

(Remember this week: Students (and adults) desperately need to see who God is so that they can see themselves for who they are in relation to Christ)

"The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock" Psalm 18:2
Our God "The Rock" Deuteronomy 32:4

In the Bible God is often compared to a rock. He is called "the rock" in Deuteronomy 32. Why? Because God remains immovable though all else around him changes.

God is immutable. God never goes from better to worse or good to great or immature to mature. God cannot change for the better. He cannot become more holy because he has been perfectly holy from all eternity. God is not man. Man is in constant change.

Read what A.W. Tozer wrote concerning God's immutability:

The immutability of God appears in its most perfect beauty when viewed against the mutability of man. In God no change is possible; in men change is impossible to escape. Neither the man is fixed nor his world, but he and it are in constant flux. Each man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

We find permanence with God.

Why is this important? Does it matter that God is immutable? What does this mean for my life?

It matters because when everything is changing around us (jobs, homes, friends, families, abilities, circumstances, finances, churches, attitudes) God remains the same.

God is not like man. If you mess up (sin) he does not give you the cold shoulder treatment for 2 weeks. We can go to him anytime. His promises are always true.

God's attributes always stay the same. He is always perfectly loving and perfectly just. He is the same in the Old Testament as He is in the New Testament. We can find comfort in God because we can rely on Him.

The immutability of God is comfort and strength for believers and terror for non-believers. Those who love God find comfort in that his promises toward them will never change. Those in rebellion against God will find that God's promises of wrath for those who defy him and ignore him in their life on earth remain unchanged in the day of judgment.

The immutability of God "insures the executions of his threatenings, as well as the performance of his promises." Rejoice that you know our Great and Holy Immutable God.