The Walk of Enoch

God never changes. He is who He is. Always. This is a key truth that every Christian who seeks to walk with God must accept. No matter what other characteristic of His nature you’re looking at, this is the one that says “You can trust God to stay that way”. I want to start off 2018 by exploring the nature of God. And what better place to begin then with this trait?

We learn that God is love but if we believe that God can change, then in our minds God may stop loving us because of our sin. Or perhaps because He’s just in a bad mood. But His unchanging nature, also called immutability, guarantee’s us that He still loves us. As it says in Romans 8:35-39 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution or famine or nakedness, or danger or sword? As it written, ‘For Your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

These verses show not only that God loves us and nothing can change that. It also shows us some of the circumstances that we may go through such as trials and tribulations, suggesting that the presence of such things is not evidence that God has stopped loving us or that we are being punished. But instead it shows us that He loves us even in those times as well. This is important, for many of us struggle with our faith in Him when everything is going wrong. We think “If God loves us then why do we suffer? Can’t He stop this from happening?” But the reality is that He still loves us but our understanding of it is too shallow. (I could go more in to this subject right now but I want to save that for a later article on love.)

Let’s look at another aspect of His character: His faithfulness. This says that God keeps His word, fulfills the promises He makes, will not let you down and is completely dependable. His faithfulness and His unchanging nature go together perfectly, If God were not unchanging than He could make a promise to man and then change His mind and not follow through with it. With man this is common. I’m sure most of us can recall either not following through with a promise we made or when someone else didn’t come through for us. And living with this great disappointment makes it hard to accept the idea that there is a Being who cannot fail to fulfill His promises. But Numbers 23:19 says “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He not speak and then act? Does He promise and not fulfill?” If God’s going to do a thing, no one can stop Him. So He will always be faithful and this too will never change. If you ever feel like God has failed you, He hasn’t. Your perspective is flawed and you need to approach Him with this and ask Him to show you the truth of the matter. Most likely the only thing God failed to do is to meet your expectations that you formed on your own.

Just remember the words of Isaiah 14:27 “For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

This immutability affects every other aspect of His character as well. His sovereignty, power, goodness and so on. It serves to enable us to have faith in God. His immutability serves as a foundation that our understanding of His character can rest upon. God is love and that can’t change, so trust in His love. God is good and that can’t change, so trust in His goodness. God is all-powerful and that can’t change, so trust in His power. God is faithful and that can’t change, so trust in His faithfulness. God can’t change. So stop worrying and trust Him.