In Malachi 3:6 we find these words, “For I am the Lord, I change not;…” and for these words I am thankful. There is one great truth about life and that is that ‘change’ is inevitable. The word change means; adjustment, modification, transformation, conversion, adaptation which means a reworking or an altered edition. I think I have found myself for I seem to be an ‘altered edition’!
Perhaps the word ‘change’ is the most dreaded word in the English language. I also think the older we get the more we dis-like the word ‘change’. The truth is we have seen about all the ‘change’ we want to, amen!
The seasons change; the weather changes; financial circumstances change; the market changes; fashions change; people seem to change; policies change; laws change; judicial rulings change; relationships change; work schedules change; our place of employment may change; we change addresses. With all of these comes our own personal change which we begin to notice each day in the mirror. There are things there that use to NOT be there! There are things missing that use to be there! Our physical bodies are crying out to us that things are changing! About the only thing, we can say, that isn’t changing is our DNA.
Yet, we all seem to want some things to change. We want political change, economical change for the better, we want medical science to always improve, we want our social life to improve and there is a desire for religious change. Churches need to change their music, their dress standards, their moral tolerance, their dogma must change, and preaching styles need to change. There is even a call for God to change! God needs to be gender neutral and more relaxed in His ‘thou shalt not’ dogma. Jesus must present Himself less like God and more like us! The words of Jesus about Himself being the ‘only’ way, the ‘only’ truth and the ‘only’ life and no man cometh to the Father but by Him have got to be adjusted to be more inclusive!
Let me tell everyone that God is for change. The imperative change of the ‘new birth’ is by God’s design and it is the most important change in a person’s life. When a person calls on Jesus for the forgiveness of their sin and by faith they accept the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and His blood as their atonement for sin, the grace of God will make them a new creature in Christ. In Christ things change for the believer; death to life, hell to heaven, sinner to saint, mortality to immortality, corruption to incorruption, to being glorified like unto Christ. WHAT A GREAT ETERNAL CHANGE!
I am thrilled, I am excited, I am motivated, and I feel a great sense of ‘security’, and ‘contentment’, along with ‘blessed assurance’ to be able to remind all of us that GOD will NEVER CHANGE! Remember what He said. “ For I am the Lord, I change not…” and the Word also tells us that “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever…”
SEE YOU SOON – BRO. ED