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weekly word – 10/09/2025

Attributes of God: The Immutability of God

When was the last time you praised God for His immutability? If you haven't done that recently, you're not alone. Most of us don't really ponder how significant it is that God does not change. [He] is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8. This is one of His excellencies which distinguishes Him from all His creatures. Change is inevitable in our lives as humans, both in small ways and large. We change in our careers, we change in our habitat or residence. We change in our behavior, our thoughts, our decisions. We even change in order to improve ourselves. These are foreign to God. He is immutable, and for that, we ought to be thankful.

First, God is immutable in His essence, His nature and being. He always existed in His infinite and perfect state. He has neither evolved or improved. All that He is today, He has always been, and always will be. Improvement or deterioration for Him is impossible. His power can never diminish, nor His glory fade. When Moses asked God how he should describe Him to the Israelites, God told him, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you." "Say this to the Israelites: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation." Exodus 3:14-15.

Secondly, God is immutable in His attributes. These never improved over time. Whatever attributes God had before He called the universe into existence are precisely the same attributes He has now and they will remain the same forever. Every one of His attributes are Semper idem (always the same). His power, His wisdom, His holiness, His Word, His love, His mercy cannot and will not change. We should find great peace and comfort in this.

Thirdly, God is immutable in His counsel. His will and His purpose never change! There is never a need for God to revise or alter His plans. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of His heart from generation to generation. Psalm 33:11. God demonstrated his unchangeable purpose by making an oath with Abraham. Through this oath, we all have great encouragement and hope in what He set before us. Hebrews 6:19 tells us that this hope is an anchor for our soul, firm and secure. His immutable counsel to us includes His Word, the Holy Scriptures. We do not have updated editions of Scripture because it was complete and perfect from the beginning. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. John 1:1. God never had to change His counsel over time, over cultural boundaries or over geographic boundaries. Scripture was perfect from the writing of the Pentateuch to the Revelation given to John. In the same way, the Gospel and the plan for our salvation never needed updating and was never altered.

We all should find great comfort in the immutability of God! Human nature can't be relied upon but God can. He doesn't change. He doesn't will one thing today and another tomorrow.

For this reason, we should all praise Him! He never changes. His purpose is fixed. His will is stable, and His Word is sure.

Pastor Bryan

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