What Can and Cannot Change in Our Relationship with God

I found this helpful, from Bryan Chapell's Holiness by Grace, beautifully reprinted this month from Crossway--

In a chart entitled 'Our Relationship with God,' Dr. Chapell lists what can change and what cannot change. Clarifying.

What Can Change

• our fellowship
• our experience of his blessing
• our assurance of his love
• his delight in our actions
• his discipline
• our sense of guilt

What Cannot Change

• our sonship
• his desire for our welfare
• his actual affection for us
• his love for us
• our destiny
• our security

--Bryan Chapell, Holiness by Grace: Delighting in the Joy That Is Our Strength (Crossway, 2001), 196
Dane Ortlund