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Daily Devotion: The Word Revealed - God is Love: His Love is Immutable - Romans 8:31-39

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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.

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