God’s Love is Immutable
God is Himself immutable. Immutable means that God
does not change. Malachi 3:6a, “For
I am the Lord, I do not change.” This
great truth means many wonderful things to believers, but one overwhelming
truth that continually moves our hearts is that we can depend upon God.
Therefore, we can absolutely depend on God’s love. God’s love does not
disappoint.
One person that worked for me many years ago had a set of
coffee mugs with a variety of moods displayed --- happy, sad, mad, goofy, don’t
tread on me, reflective, etc. She put the mug of the day on her desk each
morning. We all came to learn that the mug of the day communicated her
true mood of the day as effectively as the mugs held coffee. “Check the
mug” before entering her office was a prudent move.
Coffee mug mood of the day is not the way of God’s
love. James 1:17 speaks of God the Father when it correctly affirms, “with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.”
The same immutable, unchanging, nature of God’s love is revealed with absolute
perfection in the Person of Jesus Christ in Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,
today, and forever.”
Jesus so vividly illustrates this principle when He loves
His disciples to the very end. In the Garden of Gethsemane, these same
disciples turned and ran, abandoning Jesus in the time of challenge and hour of
great need. Peter denied Jesus, not once, not twice, but three
heartbreaking times. Yet, Jesus loved Peter to the end.
God’s love is not subject to our moods, world
circumstances, nor any other variable we can imagine. Not even the
sin of a child of God, or power of Satan himself, can separate us from the love
of God. Read very reflectively the following words taken from Romans 8:35-39.
“Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?......
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels
nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor
depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love
of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Pause and
Ponder: What can separate you from God’s love? Think through your answer
carefully. The true, unchanging answer of salvation is: NOTHING can
separate me from God’s love. This life changing reality is true because God
does not change, and His love does not change. God’s love does not
disappoint.