God Does not Change - Part 3

God's Truth Does Not Change

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People sometimes say things that they do not really mean, simply because they do not know their own mind; also, because their views change, they frequently find that they can no longer stand behind things that they said in the past. All of us sometimes have to take back our words, because they have ceased to express what we think; sometimes we have to eat our words because hard facts refute them.


The words of human beings are unstable things. But not so the words of God. they stand forever, as abidingly valid expressions of his mind and thought. No circumstances prompt him to recall them; no changes in his own thinking require him to amend them. Isaiah writes, "All flesh is grass...the grass withers...But the word of our God will stand forever" (Isa.40:6-8). Similarly, the psalmist says, "Your word, O Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens...All your commands are true...You established them to last forever" (Psa.119:89, 151-52).

The word translated true in the last verse carries with it the idea of stability. When we read our  Bibles, therefore, we need to remember that God still stands behind all the promises, and demands, and statements of purpose, and words of warning, that are addressed to New Testament believers. These are not relics of a bygone age, but an eternally valid revelation of the mind of God toward his people in all generations, so long as this world lasts. As our Lord himself has told us, "The Scripture cannot be broken" (Jn 10:35). Nothing can annul God's eternal truth.

J.I.Packer, Knowing God, pg. 78-79
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