No Take Backs: Yahweh Never Changes

March 26, 2022

Thank you for another day, for another night to rest. The days and nights are really flying, but I am thankful that no matter what it looks like you are still in control. You are the end from the beginning. You are the beginning and the end. It all began with you and it ends with you. Thank you for your majesty and power that no man, no being can topple.  Thank you for being good, for desiring what is best for us and putting everything in motion for that good. 

Thank you for your everlasting, never changing love, for who you are. We can be like waves: never sturdy. All over the place. But that’s not you. Well technically, you are all over, because you are omnipresent, but your thoughts and actions are constant with one goal: to restore humanity to a complete relationship with you. Thank you for all that you’ve done to save us.

Romans 11:29 – God never changes his mind. When he gives gifts or when he calls someone.

I think of Abraham. Yahweh repeated his promise to him six times (I wonder how many times has he reminded me?). And even when Abraham didn’t quite move the way he should have, Yahweh kept his promise. The thing is, the promise wasn’t a reflection of Abraham or dependent on him. It was dependent on Yahweh. He was the one that made the promise. Even Saul. He stepped so far away from Yahweh, but even then, Yahweh did not strip him off his appointment until the time was fulfilled. Yahweh does not change and does not go back on his promises. No take backs. 

Malachi 3:6 – I, the Lord, never change. That is why you descendants of Jacob haven’t been destroyed yet. 

He never changes. His words, not mine and we know that he never lies…and it’s amazing that even when we mess up, even when we fall away, you remain the same. You do correct us. You show us what we ought to do, but you don’t change. You don’t take away your promise to us, even though we probably would have if we were the ones who had made the promise in the first place. The only person in history who lived perfect according to the promise is you. Everyone else (even my second favourite Bible person Joseph who probably came the closest) wasn’t perfect. But you remained who you are. This gives me so much hope. Not that I intend to just do my own thing (Cause hello, consequences are real), but that if I mess up, if I get afraid, if I don’t, you aren’t there waiting for the slightest infraction to say, “Aha! I’ve got you now!” (Insert evil laugh here). But instead in every moment I have doubted, you have reassured me that your promise is based on your faithfulness. It is based on who you are, what you said and not on me. Thank you for standing in my place. For keeping both sides of the covenant. Thank you for never changing, for being the same, now and forever. There is none like you. 

Isaiah 54: 10 – The mountains may move, and the hills may shake, but my kindness will never depart from you. My promise of Peace will never change, says the Lord who has compassion on you. 

You know it’s funny that we have more faith in gravity than in the one who created gravity. Everywhere in nature we see the consistency of Yahweh. It wasn’t Newton who decided that what goes up must come down. That was Yahweh. Newton merely observed it. 

I get up every morning and expect the sun to shine. I accept the Main Ridge to still be there, but somehow, it becomes too easy for us to think that because we messed up that Yahweh changed his mind. If I fall walking up a hill (because I wasn’t minding my business), the hill doesn’t move and say, “Oh well, you don’t deserve to see the views from my peak.” The mountain stays right there and I’m able to try again. That’s Yahweh right there.

He doesn’t move. 

He doesn’t change. 

His promises remain.

But we need to be careful that we don’t invent a promise of our own accord – cause since it wasn’t from Yahweh, it can definitely be moved. That’s probably why he says to wait on him. To draw close to him. Because it’s only by knowing him that we can know what comes from him. 

No Take Backs

Sometimes I wonder if I’m not saying the same thing but in different words, but then I remember that Yahweh is the one leading, not me. Last week, the word “Anchor” came up as a promise from Yahweh and I started to wonder why “Never Changes” would be the promise for today. They are so similar. But then I realise that the difference is me. Yahweh never changes. He’s the same yesterday, today and forever. That has nothing (absolutely nothing!) to do with me, but him being an anchor does. It’s tied into his inability to change but in order for him to be my anchor I have to choose him. I have to trust him or he cannot anchor me. It is literally my choice. An anchor could be sitting on a ship for however long, but it can’t fulfil its purpose unless the sailor chooses to use it. And while Yahweh isn’t inanimate (heaven forbid!!), we do have to choose to “use” him as our anchor. 

My God is Still the Same – Sanctus Real

Of Yahweh’s Promises Playlist

Yahweh help me. Help me not to make anything else, anyone else my God. I don’t desire any more than you. But I also don’t want a little “g” god either in my life. Nothing that I worship or desire that would separate me from you.