A familiar phrase coursing through culture is, "The only constant in life is change." Weather changes, people change, relationships and attitudes change Colors fade from clothing, our faces and bodies change shape and texture over the years. Most change is small and unnoticeable, but we'd be hard-pressed to find anything that does not change considerably over time.
For a guy like me, that's hard. I spend hours perfecting one thing or another, honing life to my specifications. Wood-working, a project, the beds I plant in the yard. I even spent years perfecting my penmanship so I could write faster and neater and that my letters would look exactly the way I wanted. Yet, looking back, everything has changed. Sometimes subtly, sometimes obviously.
Scripture teaches us again and again that Yahweh does not change. "I Am that I Am," God told Moses. Numerous authors of scripture have articulated the same truth. God does not change. We need to hear it, meditate on it, and see what difference it makes in our lives. It doesn't make Him archaic, irrelevant, obsolete, or discarded; in fact, it should make Him the most significant part of our lives. Everything else is fading away, and He remains.
Sermon Notes -- Psalm 102:1-28
We tend to rely on things that change to give us abiding contentment. But that won't work -- we must rely on something that abides unchanged.
His unchangingness makes Him God -- if He could be even more or less of what He is now, He wouldn't be God. But His promises are sure and set. If He changed, we couldn't depend on His promises, or even our own faith in who He is. But He does not change & He keeps His promises.
God brings change in our lives to show His perfect, unchanging goodness.
Order of Worship, February 10 2013
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