I am currently reading The Knowledge of the Holy The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian by A.W. Tozer. Yes, the title is long, but the chapters are rich, but very short. It takes a chapter for each attribute. I highly recommend it. I have been reading a chapter each night when we get into bed. I find it to be the perfect, satisfying thing for my soul after a long day of running around and losing focus of what really matters and what is really going on all around me.
Last nights chapter was on the Immutability of God. Here are a few excerpts from that chapter that were particularly sweet to my soul -
“All that God is He has always been, and all that He has been and is He will ever be.” Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.
The immutability of God appears at its most perfect beauty when viewed against the mutability of men…In this world men forget us, change their attitude toward us as their private interests dictate, and revise their opinion of us for the slightest cause, is it not a source of wondrous strength to know that the God with whom we have to do changes not? That His attitude toward us now is the same as it was in eternity past and will be in eternity to come?
What peace it brings to the Christian’s heart to realize that our Heavenly Father never differs from Himself. In coming to Him at any time we need not wonder whether we shall find Him in a receptive mood. He is always receptive to misery and need, as well as to love and faith. He does not keep office hours nor set aside periods when He will see no one. Neither does He change His mind about anything. Today, this moment, He feels towards His creatures, toward babies, toward the sick, the fallen, the sinful, exactly as He did when He sent His only-begotten Son into the world to die for mankind.
God never changes moods or cools off in His affections for loses enthusiasm. His attitude toward sin is now the same as it was when He drove out the sinful man from the eastward garden, and His attitude toward the sinner the same as when He stretched forth His hands and cried, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Yet as much as we deplore the lack of stability in all earthly things, in a fallen world such as this the very ability to change is a golden treasure, a gift from God of such fabulous worth as to call for constant thanksgiving. For human beings the whole possibility of redemption lies in their ability to change. To move across from one sort of person to another is the essence of redemption: the liar becomes truthful, the thief honest, the lewd pure, the proud humble. The whole moral texture of the life is altered. The thoughts, the desires, the affections are transformed, and the man is no longer what he had been before.
And to my little man who is constantly changing in terms of sounds and activities and in all the little ways, and yet staying the same with his hair so fine and thin and still perfectly content being a little speedy crawler. He loves the dogs more and more each day – throwing them tennis balls, giving them his food (which he is not suppose to do) and just chasing them around the house. He continues to love to be outside, despite the cold air. He is cruising more and more along furniture and will now walk while holding my hand, but gets over it pretty quickly. He truly is a bundle of energy and a bundle of joy.
At the park
And you can see where we have gotten to with the calendar pictures, those days are long gone.
