THE EVER CHANGING MAN VERSUS THE UNCHANGING GOD!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY MAY 02, 2021.

SUBJECT : THE EVER CHANGING MAN VERSUS THE UNCHANGING GOD!

Memory verse: "For I am the LORD, I do not change; Therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob." (Malachi 3 vs 6.)

READ: Hebrews 13 vs 8:

13:8: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

INTIMATION:

We have seen God personally acknowledge His unchanging Nature in our memory verse above. God cannot be your Father today, and tomorrow He is no more. No! Everything about Him is permanent. What He is yesterday He is today, and forever remain the same. In a changing world we can only trust our unchanging Lord!

About four thousand years ago our loving Father guided the children of Israel out of Egypt. They came to the Red Sea, He parted the waters, and the people of Israel rejoiced with God's faithfulness to them. Three days later, they were faced with a challenge; they found no water until they got to Marah. Unfortunately, the water in Marah was bitter, and they couldn't drink it. But the children of Israel were found complaining and questioning, "What shall we drink?" They, in a short while, forgot the mightiness of God, which He had displayed to them just a few miles back. (Exodus 14 & 15 vs 22-24). Nonetheless, that didn't change God.

Two thousand years later, a band of twelve hand-chosen disciples saw the power of God displayed through the Lord Jesus, as He performed the incredible miracle of feeding the five thousand people with five loaves and two fish. A similar situation faced them another time, which was an opportunity that came their way to exercise their faith, in feeding four thousand others, but they too questioned the permanence of Jesus' ability. (Matthew 14 vs 15-21 & 15 vs 32-38).

In Mark 8 vs 17 - 21, Jesus reckoned with the faithlessness, and non-understanding of His permanent Nature by His disciples: "....Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened? Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up? They said to Him "Twelve." Also, when I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of fragments did you take up? And they said, "Seven." So He said to them, "How is it you do not understand?"

Jesus rebuked the disciples for their hard hearts. Today the hard hearts abound everywhere, even among believers. We see the same attitude in our day and age. How easily we throw up our hands in despair when faced with difficult situations. Like the disciples, we often forget that if God has cared for us in the past, He will do the same now. When facing a difficult situation, remember that God cares for you and trust Him to work faithfully again.

If you were to be honest, you might be able to remember a time when you responded in the same manner. You may have seen God's handiwork in your life, yet you later questioned if God could work in those ways ever again. Ask yourself these questions: Has God changed? Is He no longer the caring Father you need Him to be?

In Romans 3 vs 3 - 5, the apostle Paul in teaching the Roman church about God's permanence, even in judgement. He said, "Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar." God cannot deny Himself and He has said He can never change.

God is a Prepared Father. Nothing surprises our Heavenly Father because He is capable of handling every situation. We are told in Luke 1 vs 37: "For nothing is impossible with God." What great news. We may have limitations, but not our Father in heaven. 

Prayer: Abba Father, You are my permanent, perfect, and prepared Father. You have always been there for me, and have never changed. Give me the grace to completely trust in You, looking up unto You in every situation I face in life, knowing that in my unfaithfulness You have remained faithful and will never change, in Jesus' Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!