The UNCHANGEABLENESS of God.
Geoffrey R. Kirkland, pastor
Theologians call the unchangeableness of God the immutability of God. This means that God cannot and does not change. If God alone is perfect then He cannot change or he would then cease being perfect and become something else. But God everlastingly remains the same — yesterday, today, and forever. He says: “I the LORD do not change” (Malachi 3.6). His being does not change. His essence and character never alters. His attributes never fluctuate. God never has a bad day. God never has a mood-swing. God never is frustrated because things don’t go His way.
Men change and rise and fall. Animals are born and then die. All creation changes and shifts and is altered over time. But God, God alone, from the very beginning of time, indeed from all infinite eternities past, has never ever changed even in the slightest. He is the towering Rock, the eternal Lord, the unchanging God, and the mighty fortress.
Kingdoms have come and gone. Rulers, Kings, princes, monarchs, Pharaohs, Prime Ministers and Presidents have taken office and then passed away. But God’s royal rulership and steady Kingship have not changed — ever! This also means that God cannot learn anything. He never forgets anything. He never grows in wisdom. He can’t improve. He shall not enhance his knowledge of a circumstance or a possibility. All things are perfectly known and governed and ruled over by God alone.
The unchangeableness of God means that everything God has purposed and decreed shall be accomplished. The unchangeableness of God also requires that God fulfill all His promises. Here is a solid footing for you to rest your weary, tired, fatigued, uncertain, and anxious heart. Come to the immutability of your God and gaze on His unchanging love for you. And bow low and worship Him!
This attribute of God should instill absolute fear and dreadful horror in the hearts of all the unsaved. The God who has promised to repay the wicked to their faces (Deut 7.11) and that God’s soul abhors the covenant-breakers (Lev.26.30) and that God will punish the evildoers (Luke 13.27) and that the day of reckoning is coming with Christ the Judge when He will cast all unbelievers into the Lake of Fire (Rev 20:15). Oh, this should compel unbelieving sinners to run quickly and decisively to Christ Jesus the Rock, the Substitute, the Lamb of God.
For the believer, the unchangeableness provides immeasurable comfort and hope. The God who has made promise after promise shall fulfill them all! Our God has set sovereign, wondrous love upon us from eternity past and shall save all of them and bring them to His heavenly dwelling to worship Him forevermore. Christ’s crosswork shall always succeed and save. Not one sheep will ever be lost. Worship and bow low and consider deeply the unchangeableness of your mighty God!
