Malachi 3:6
"For I am the Lord, I do not change.”
Despite how over time by default, circumstances change and over time our thinking and just general attitudes change over time, maybe because of this bad experience with a guy or girl... Or you've been made unemployed suddenly... Or you for some crazy reason, experience financial loss, so much so that you must file for bankruptcy...
Over time, human beings change.
Friends and other relationships change too.
Someone you used to consider dear and closest to you will one day be very far from you physically or emotionally. Why? Too many changes and making it so hard to continue having that relationship. Because friendship is a two way street: Only works if both parties want the friendship to continue. But sometimes it just doesn't happen. And so it becomes a one way street. And then eventually nobody walks down that street, because there’s no point in trying to get through to the other person.
And that's what it's like with lots of people... And their relationship with God.
We say things have changed.
But really... God doesn't change. It's us that has changed. Not Him. God remains the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
And despite how much we change, either for better or worse (or richer or poorer, sickness and health!!) ... He will not move and change.
He will not be shaken or affected.
Simply put, that's stability for you.
And what's crazy is that the truth always remains the same. And that is, despite how much we change, how far we end up away from God, He will always be waiting for us. It's not really a temperamental relationship like how it is with so and so... It's different. It's not hot or cold. It will always be a fact that God loves us no matter how we mess up time and time again.
With an unchangeable God, with an unchangeable relationship-- who wants to follow the world where fashions change, people change, leaders change, money fluctuates...?
I know I don’t. Do you?
"For I am the Lord, I do not change.”
Despite how over time by default, circumstances change and over time our thinking and just general attitudes change over time, maybe because of this bad experience with a guy or girl... Or you've been made unemployed suddenly... Or you for some crazy reason, experience financial loss, so much so that you must file for bankruptcy...
Over time, human beings change.
Friends and other relationships change too.
Someone you used to consider dear and closest to you will one day be very far from you physically or emotionally. Why? Too many changes and making it so hard to continue having that relationship. Because friendship is a two way street: Only works if both parties want the friendship to continue. But sometimes it just doesn't happen. And so it becomes a one way street. And then eventually nobody walks down that street, because there’s no point in trying to get through to the other person.
And that's what it's like with lots of people... And their relationship with God.
We say things have changed.
But really... God doesn't change. It's us that has changed. Not Him. God remains the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
And despite how much we change, either for better or worse (or richer or poorer, sickness and health!!) ... He will not move and change.
He will not be shaken or affected.
Simply put, that's stability for you.
And what's crazy is that the truth always remains the same. And that is, despite how much we change, how far we end up away from God, He will always be waiting for us. It's not really a temperamental relationship like how it is with so and so... It's different. It's not hot or cold. It will always be a fact that God loves us no matter how we mess up time and time again.
With an unchangeable God, with an unchangeable relationship-- who wants to follow the world where fashions change, people change, leaders change, money fluctuates...?
I know I don’t. Do you?
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