WHY DO WE THINK WE CAN CHANGE GOD?
James 1:17 gives an amazing description of God: “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the FATHER OF LIGHTS, with whom is NO VARIABLENESS, neither SHADOW OF TURNING.”
God is immutable. He does not and cannot change. I love what Arthur Pink says: “God has neither evolved, grown, nor improved. All that He is today, He has ever been, and ever will be. . . . He cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse. Altogether unaffected by anything outside Himself, improvement or deterioration is impossible. He is perpetually the same. He is altogether uninfluenced by the flight of time. There is no wrinkle upon the brow of eternity. Therefore His power can never diminish nor His glory ever fade.”
How is it that we think we can change God? I think one of the greatest sins in the church today is bringing God down to our level and humanistic understanding instead of worshipping Him as He is, “I AM THAT I AM” (Exodus 3:14).
James uses an amazing a scientific analogy to reveal this character of God. He calls God the Father of lights, meaning the Creator of the heavenly bodies and reveals how there is “shadow of turning” with the sun, moon, and stars. They have changes, literally “parallaxes,” eclipses of one another by shadows and so on, but there is not the faintest shadow with God.
But God is not only unchangeable in His essence, and His character, but also His counsel. Hebrews 6:17 tells us about the “immutability (unchangableness) of His counsel, in which it is impossible for God to lie.” What God said in the beginning is “forever settled in heaven” (Psalm 119:89). It is perfect for all ages and all generations.
His plan for mankind, and His purposes for us His female creation are the same from the beginning. He has not made new rules for each new generation. God’s counsel stays the same because it has already been perfected!
Dear wives and mothers, let’s not think we know better than God. Lets embrace His life-giving ways. Let’s embrace the way He created us as females and the great purposes He has for us to nurture our children in the home, that each new generation will be nourished and taught in the ways of God.
Jeremiah 6:16 says: “Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.”
Love from Nancy Campbell
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