The Un-changing God

The following is an excerpt (the closing summary) from my sermon yesterday, 3rd January 2010.

In your life, between now and when you die, however long that is, you will experience many changes in your life. Some will be good, some will be painful. All of them will create stress. My question becomes: How are you going to respond to those changes? You can't prepare for them because they aren't predictable. You don't know what they're going to be. How are you going to handle them? What's going to be the source of stability in your life when things around change?

There are three things to remember when life is changing all around you. They are absolute facts. They become spiritual anchors for your soul in a changing world.

1) God will never stop loving me. Never. He won't even love me less. I won't understand all that is going on but no matter what He's doing, He's acting toward me in love. That gives stability. No matter what happens, He loves me.

2) God's word is always right. The advice in the Bible is the right thing to do, even if it's unpopular or unpleasant it is always the right thing to do. That's an anchor, a dependable stabilizer in an ever-changing world.

3) God's purpose for my life is alwasy consistent. His purpose is that I have an abundant life of joy as I become more and more like Jesus. Problems and sins can't change God's purpose. They won’t change God's purpose for my life and it will not change what He wants to do in my life.

I praise God that He is consistent, stable and unchanging. I choose to build my life on this solid rock!

(Credit to Rick Warren for the outline.)