The Unchanging Lord
For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but My steadfast love shall not depart from you. (Isaiah 54:10 ESV)
We trust not in ourselves, but in God, who raises up the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and who doth deliver, and in whom we trust He will yet deliver. “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Oh, the unchanging Lord, the unchanging Christ; our blessed Lord never changes. And God said, “I AM, I AM.”
So many things change today, so many springs that run dry. There are two kinds of springs. Some we call “weather springs” and some we call “dry weather springs.” In the early part of summer, when much rain is falling, these little basins are formed in the creeks’ banks that hold the water. But when the hot weather comes and rain ceases, they dry up from the water’s source. They’re springs that dry up because they have their source in an upper fountain.
So many sources of pleasure and comfort change as the years go by. But the Christian’s joy and peace doesn’t dry up or change because it has its source in an upper, everlasting fountain—the unchanging Lord. As God’s Word says, “There is a stream that makes glad the heart of man.” Christ has not changed, He’s just the same. What He did for others in the past, He can do for you today! [1]
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.When other helpers fail and comforts flee,O Thou who changest not, abide with me. - Henry Lyte, 1847
[1] Anchor Jesus Christ the Same
