The hall-mark of everything in the universe, apart from God, is change. The face of the earth changes with the changing seasons. The stars in their courses and the moon in her phases all change; nothing remains constant. God alone is unchanging in the changing scene - "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God" (Psalm 90:2).
His spotless holiness remains unchanged throughout the ages of time. "In Him is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5). He is ‘of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity" (Hab. 1:13). He has still the same relentless hatred of sin; He has not become complacent. His mercy and pity, likewise, are still the same - "He abideth faithful" (2 Tim. 2:13).
Peter tells us that there are given unto us "exceeding great and precious promises" (2 Pet. 1:4), and Paul says that "all the promises of God in Him are yea and in Him Amen"(2 Cor. 1:20). However unlikely or seemingly impossible of fulfilment, not one shall fail. It is "impossible for God to lie" (Heb. 6:18).
He "fainteth not, neither is weary" (Isa. 40:28). Our arms grow weary but "His hand is not shortened that it cannot save" (Isa. 59:1). He Who never changes is ever effecting changes. No one who comes into contact with Him remains the same. He so transforms those who turn to Him that, as they have borne the image of the earthly, they will also bear the image of the heavenly.
Since He does not change, we are not at the mercy of changing events. We cannot be desolate so long as we have Him. We do not know what shall be on the morrow, but we know that it will be God's tomorrow. We have to do with an unchanging love and with a faithfulness which never departs from its word.
"I am the Lord, I change not." Let this word be a strength to us in coming days, and let us commit ourselves afresh to Him with Whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.