Day 9

Some believe that God’s Word must adapt to accommodate changes in culture & ‘keep up with the times’ by changing morals, ethics, & beliefs..
However, GOD’s character does not change, & therefore, His Word does not change – His truth, standards, & way of salvation will never change..!
The Bible gives us clear guidelines on what should change and what should stay the same..
“I, the Lord, never change,” God declares in Malachi 3:6. So that’s where we start. Change means a move in another direction. For God to change would mean that He either becomes better or worse, and God is ultimate perfection. He cannot change because He cannot be better than He already is; and He cannot fail or become less than perfect, so He cannot become worse than He is. God’s quality of never changing is called “immutability”..
God never changes, and nothing about Him changes: His character traits such as love, mercy, kindness, justice, and wisdom always exist in perfection..
The methods He uses to deal with human beings have changed through the centuries, but the values and purposes behind those methods did not..
If God’s character does not change, then His Word does not change. His truth, standards, and way of salvation will never change (John 14:6)..
Changeable humans do not have the power or authority to change God’s Word, and only the foolish will try..
But we must be willing to change our minds and our lifestyles when we are shown from God’s infallible (faultless, errorless) Word that we are wrong. We must embrace change, no matter how hard it is, when it comes from from an unchanging God..
“Those who are honest and fair, who refuse to profit by fraud, who stay far away from bribes, who refuse to listen to those who plot murder, who shut their eyes to all enticement to do wrong— these are the ones who will dwell on high. The rocks of the mountains will be their fortress. Food will be supplied to them, and they will have water in abundance.….”(Isaiah 33:15-16‬)