Dear God, Don't Change!

God is not a man, that he should lie;
neither the son of man, that he should repent:
hath he said, and shall he not do it?
or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? Num 23.19

…. the goodness of God endureth continually. Ps 52.1

And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good?

none is good, save one, that is, God. Luke 18.19

For I am the LORD, I change not;

therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Mal 3.6

I sometimes think that every time we speak of God, we should start with these verses. We need to be reminded of the constant goodness of God. Even a good man can do bad things. But God cannot be less than a perfect God, and that means that He has to be good always. Do you want to trust a god who may not be good? Do you want to rely on a god that will let you down? You might as well rely on winning the lottery or discovering that you really do have a rich uncle. God has to be reliable, otherwise our faith is worthless.

God keeps reminding us that He is reliable. He is always good. So if someone teaches you that God can do something evil, that teaching is wrong.

The verse from Malachi says that God does not change. That is essential to us, because if God can change, he might change and do something evil. God does not change, but circumstances change. We do not live under the same set of “rules” that people did in the Old Testament, but God is the same, and He has not changed. Unlike men, when God institutes a new set of “rules”, He always tells us. God sent Jesus to bring in the new “rules” and He sent the Apostles to give us more guidance about His new covenant.