Daily Affirmations - Day 4 - Faithful God - The Same Yesterday, Today, Forever
- Alisa B.
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Day 4: The same yesterday, today forever
[God]...does not change like shifting shadows (James 1:17).
Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away.
Change and decay in all around I see.
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
~ Henry F. Lyte, 1847
“I am God, I change not” ...
1. There is a God; this God rules and governs all things; this God fashioned the world: He upholds and maintains it. What kind of Being must He be? It does strike me that ...if you for one moment think of a changing God, the words...clash... I could no more think of a changing God, than I could of a round square, or any other absurdity...
2. [A] good argument may be found in the fact of God’s perfection. Now, if He is a perfect being, He cannot change... Suppose I am perfect today, if it were possible for me to change, should I be perfect tomorrow after the alteration?
If I changed, I must either change from a good state to a better—and then if I could get better, I could not be perfect now—or else from a better state to a worse—and if I were worse, I should not be perfect then. So, if God is perfect, He must be the same; for change would imply imperfection now, or imperfection then.
3. Again, there is the fact of God’s infinity, which puts change out of the question. God is an infinite being. But there cannot be two infinities. If one thing is infinite, there is no room for anything else; for infinite means all. It means not bounded, not finite, having no end.
Well, there cannot be two infinities. If God is infinite today, and then should change and be infinite tomorrow, there would be two infinities. But that cannot be. Suppose He is infinite and then changes, He must become finite, and could not be God; either He is finite today and finite tomorrow, or infinite today and finite tomorrow, or finite today and infinite tomorrow—all of which are equally absurd.
The fact of His being an infinite being at once quashes the thought of His being a changeable being. Infinity has written on its very brow the word “immutability.”
4. But then, dear friends, let us look at the past: and there we shall gather some proofs of God’s immutable (unchanging) nature. “Hath he spoken, and hath he not done it? Hath he sworn, and hath it not come to pass?” (Numbers 23:19 -KJV) Can it not be said of Jehovah, “He [has] done all His will, and He [has] accomplished all His purpose?”
And has God cast off His people? Has He once been unmindful of His promise? Has He once broken His oath and covenant, or once departed from His plan? Ah! no. Point to one instance in history where God has changed! [We] cannot, for throughout all history there stands the fact that God has been immutable in His purposes.
~ Spurgeon, The Immutability of God
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