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No Change
“Meddle not with them that are given to change” (Proverbs 24:21).
I heard someone say that we have “A changing Christ for a changing world.” But is that really true? Is it really the issue or the need? I suggest that the world wants to change the standard to accommodate their sinful lifestyle and to resist what their conscience tells them is unquestionably wrong.
What is needed is not a change ahead but a change back to the unchanging Word of God and the unchanging person that it presents. He assures us, “I am the Lord, I change not” (Malachi 3:6), and “The Word of our God shall stand for ever” (Isaiah 40:8).
The only thing that is new is His mercies. “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-23). Let’s be thankful that He is untainted and unchanged by time or by the trends and downward course of an ever-changing world. He is still, and will always be, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8). This truth and stability we can always count on and rejoice in!
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