GOD IS 'IMMUTABLE'

According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, the word "Immutable" means 'not capable of or susceptible to change'. However, all of creation is forever changing; it is impossible to escape this fact. The mountains with snowy tops in winter, lose this in summer as rivers melt down their sides, taking with it dirt and causing erosion, thus constantly changing the mountain. The ocean gives up water as the sun draws from it, forming storm clouds in the heavens. Man especially is in change as his body goes from youth to old age in a matter of a few years. Man will move from worse to better, or even better to worse; he can go from immature to mature.

All of creation is in constant change, but God remains the same. He is incapable of change; He is perfect and has always been perfect. He is Holy and has never been any less Holy. God is not a substance as we are, but a spirit--pure, essential, and ethereal Spirit--and therefore He is immutable.

Since God never changes, His Attributes never change. What He was in the beginning, He is just the same now. He is unchanged in His love, in His Faithfulness, in His power, in His Justice. Malachi 3:6 states: "I am the Lord; I change not..."

If there is any change in our relationship with God, it is on our part, not God's. God Himself is outside of mutation and thereby unaffected by any of the changes occurring in our world. Charles Wesley stated:

"And all things as they change proclaim

The Lord eternally the same."

This should bring peace to our hearts, as we know we can come to our God at any time and know He is always receptive to our needs. His attitude toward sin is the same as it was when He drove Adam and Eve from the Garden; and His attitude toward sinful man has never changed as He reaches out to him and says "come unto me..."

1. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
2. Sermons by Charles Spurgeon
3. The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W.Tozer
4. The Heart of CC