GOD-IMMUTABILITY
[Immutability]
means that, being perfect, God cannot and does not change. In order to change, a moral being must change
in either of two ways. Either he must
change for the better or he must change for the worse. God cannot get better, because that would
mean that He was less than perfect earlier, in which case He would not have
been God. But God cannot get worse
either, because in that case He would become imperfect, which He cannot
be. God is and must remain perfect in
all His attributes.
The Minor Prophets, v. 2, Baker, 1986, p.
600.
Our changing years affect not Him with
Whom one day is as a thousand years and a thousand
years as one day: Who is the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever. In a
changing world, let us rejoice in this unchangeableness.
Horatius Bonar
The
Past Year and the Coming One, The Christian Treasury,
1859.
It
is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never
alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.
C.H. Spurgeon
I am the Lord, I Change Not, Devotional from
Mal. 3:6.
A changeable
God would be a terror to the righteous, they would have no sure anchorage, and
amid a changing world they would be driven to and fro in perpetual fear of
shipwreck… Our heart leaps for joy as we bow before One
who has never broken His word or changed His purpose.
C.H. Spurgeon
A Treasury of David, Psalm. 100:3.
God altereth not His plans; why should He? He is Almighty, and
therefore can perform His pleasure. Why should He? He is the All-wise,
and therefore cannot have planned wrongly. Why should He? He is the everlasting
God, and therefore cannot die before His plan is accomplished. Why should He
change? Ye worthless atoms of earth, ephemera of a day, ye creeping insects
upon this bay-leaf of existence, ye may change your plans, but He shall never,
never change His.
C.H. Spurgeon
Sermon, A Defense of
Calvinism.
Consider what
you owe to His immutability. Though you have changed a thousand times, He has
not changed once.
C.H.
Spurgeon
He cannot
change for the better, for he is already perfect; and, being perfect, he cannot
change for the worse.
A.W. Pink
The Attributes of God, Baker, p. 37.
God’s plan
never changes because He never changes and because perfection admits to no
degrees and cannot be improved upon.
R.C. Sproul
The Blueprint of Redemption,
Tabletalk, Feb. 2004, p. 6, Used by Permission.