We may change many things over our lifetimes, but God never changes. Never. In Mark 7:8-13, Jesus gives the account of how the people changed the commandments of God by creating a tradition of man. He tells them in Mark 7:12-13, “Then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother, making the Word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down.”
We may change many things, but God never changes. We make laws to make abortion lawful, but God frowns on abortions. We make laws that say we can choose our genders, but God created just two genders, males and females. Now don’t worry. This is not a message to condemn people. It is a message to show people how much they are loved.
Malachi 3:6 say, “For I am the Lord, I do not change.” In a simple way, the Lord is saying He will never change Who He is towards us because He grows tired of us. He is our father. He will always take care of us. He will not implement a change that says only if we permit Him to live in us will He have to take care of us. Man would do that; Jesus does not.
So, what does it really mean, “for I am the Lord, I do not change”? Well, for me it means God is already love and perfectly good; two things we want most in life. Because He is love, we cannot improve on what is perfect, and we cannot improve on what is already the essence of good. And this Love and perfection and goodness is what He means to us.
God is Love and perfect in every way. He is the essence of good. God’s grace and mercy assures us that He is never going to change his Love toward us. Love, tempered with grace and mercy is enough to keep us from changing what we cannot change into something God alone can change but He will not.
Though we may lie sometimes, perhaps lots of times, grace and mercy keeps God loving us even though He hates our lies.
Though we may cheat, steal, or commit adultery, grace and mercy keeps God loving us even though He hates the things we do.
Though we may be hateful sometimes or we may deal deceitfully with others, grace and mercy keeps God loving us even though He hates what we do.
Though we may even give the excuse that we are human and not perfect, and that God loves us anyway, grace and mercy keeps God saying we are right but not right enough. Indeed, we are born human and sinful. This is true.
Grace and mercy give us the desire to live trying to be who God wants us to be instead of trying to get God to accept us just as we are in our imperfect sinful ways.
There is not much you and I can change that will make any real difference in life, save our attitudes and how we think about the things that are difficult. The Lord wants us to learn that we cannot change what He has created. We cannot create our standards for what is good and then change our behaviors to live by our standards.
The Lord wants us to learn to accept His Loving, perfect, and good work just as it is. If it seems imperfect to us, perhaps its because our hearts are not filled fully with His love.
If your marriage, your children, your work, your church, or anything else does not seem to be perfect to you, give it your best loving, perfect, and good effort. Grace and mercy will help you get through what you cannot change.
You must remember that you are not alone. The Lord will help you change something about you that will change the things that go on around you.
God does not change. We can count on that with all certainty. God is not a man; His steadfast love remains forever. His counsel is sure and perfect. And Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The only thing you can change is how you feel about the things you go through. Change your attitude and trust that God does not change His toward you – no matter what. He does not change.
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