Thoughts for another day

October 21, 2008.

Today's verse: Malachi 3:6. For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Passage of time brings about change. Philosophers say that ‘change is the only constant’ and we’ve heard that ‘constancy brings about stagnancy’. Yet, the Supreme One, the Only One who is the Most High doesn’t believe in change. Hence, some of the greater among His creation do not change. The sun never changes its course, neither does the earth stop rotating on its axis. We know the consequences if they’d do that. Apple trees still yield apples and water is still given by rain and snow…

So why doesn’t God change, nor do His fundamental principles governing the universe, controlling life. While I am too small to elucidate the grandeur of things like that and this being too small a forum to dwell on it, I’d only say that there are everlasting norms God has created along with the universe. What we note as time and the change that accrues as a consequence of time, is nothing for God Who is outside of time. For Him, a thousand years is as a day and vice versa. Therefore, God obviously does not harbor change as there is nothing like ‘change’ for God.

Take a look at yourself. Do you change? I am not talking of the physical attributes that happen as a result of aging, but about something like, let’s say after a certain age, do we change into different forms? We don’t, for God has not made us to change. Being given a mind that can allow change in the way we think, we humans consider change as the essence of growth; and that is a big fallacy the devil has pushed down our throats. Some of you may think, ‘what an illogical idea?’ but really think about it. Think deeply and you will come to know what I am saying.

And I say, thank God He doesn’t change. That His attributes of love and mercy never fade. Imagine if He, because of immense sin that mankind indulges in, sheds them, what would be our fate. We’d be washed off the face of the earth in no time. We’d have no hope of a good life and perhaps live, not knowing what’s to happen next. Bless God that He never forgets your name, because He has carved you in the palm of His hand and of course He never changes. Live in gratitude that He being the same, will never hesitate to say, ‘let it be done to you as you wish’, and ‘come home, I forgive you.’