Changeless One

God is called the Ancient Of Days (Daniel 7:9). In Hebrews 13:8 it says, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." Also, God is called the Alpha and Omega (Revelations 1:8). These various names speak of the eternal and unchanging character of God.

This is a great comfort to us when considering how human nature can change so quickly. Moods can swing from happy and uplifted to dark and troubled in minutes. Attitudes can sour quickly when met with conflict or problems. Love can grow cold and disconnected. Conditions can be place on people to live up to some spoke or unspoken expectation before reciprocating any affection toward them.

God is not like us nor does He behave as we do when we express love, forgiveness or other forms of benevolence. We change but God does not change the depth, height or richness of His love toward us. Lamentations 3:22 says, "Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail." (NIV).

Because He can not change, we must change to be like Him. God gives us the power, grace and strength to rid of our bad attitudes, sinful habits and other fleshly behaviors to become more like Christ. Change can be difficult, but not impossible.

Beloved, the danger in not changing is that we eventually resist the Holy Spirit who guides in all truth. This is like cutting off the power supply to your house that provides energy to the home. Not only will we be in the dark and cold, we lack the power to overcome the flesh and the devil. We will soon find ourselves more flexible to the ways of the world, allowing them to influence and impress our minds with a distorted view of God - one that sees God has rigid, cold, unfeeling and loveless.

Paul sums it all up in this verse in I Corinthians 13:11, "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me."

It's time to change and mature into the Changeless One.