Monday May 27, 2024

Malachi 3:6
“For I the LORD do not change; therefore you,
O children of Jacob, are not consumed.”

To announce that you’re going to speak on the immutability of God is almost like putting up a sign saying, “There’ll be no service here tonight!” Nobody wants to hear anybody talk about it, I suppose. But when it’s explained, you’ll find you’ve struck gold and diamonds, milk and honey.

Now the word immutable, of course, is the negative of mutable. And mutable is from the Latin, meaning “subject to change.” Mutation is a word we often use to mean “a change in form, nature or substance.” Immutability, then, means “not subject to change.” . . .

Now there is in God no mutation possible. As it says in James, “with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change” (James 1:17)—there is no variation due to change. And there is also that verse in Malachi: “For I the LORD do not change” (Malachi 3:6). . . .

Incidentally, He’s the only One in the universe that can say that. And He did say it! He simply says that He never changes, that there is no change possible in God. God never differs from Himself. If you get ahold of this, it can be to you an anchor in the storm, a hiding place in danger. There is no possibility of changing in God. And God never differs from Himself.

Tozer on the Almighty God : A 366-Day Devotional (WingSpread, 2004)
Scripture for opening text taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®, ESV © 2016 by Crossway Bibles.
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