DAILY?READINGS: Ezra 7; Daniel 8; Revelation 3:7-22
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Hebrews 6:17-18
The word immutable or “changeless” describes the eternal “sameness” of our God—yesterday, today and forever. In contrast to everything else, God and His Word remain absolutely constant. We experience change in our human pilgrimage, but not the Lord Jesus. His immutable promise has been given for a “strong consolation,” to us who have fled to him for refuge. —S. B.
No mood of feeling, form of thought, is constant for a day;
But Thou, O Lord, Thou changest not, the same Thou art alway.
—John Campbell Shairp