SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/28/2016 9:23 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: An Unchanging God
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Malachi 3:6
Message of the verse: “6 “For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore
you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.”
“For I am the Lord your God, and I am not
changed.” (Septuagint)
I
am not sure why the Septuagint version does not have all of what the NASB95
version has in it.
We
see one of God’s attributes in verse six and that is that He does not
change. When you are perfect as God is
there is no reason to change, and besides that if God would change then He
would not be God.
The
reason for these social abuses is exactly the same reason that we have them in
our country and I would say even around the world at this time, and that is
that there is no fear of God. I have
written about my feelings about evolution in many of my Spiritual Diaries and
said that evolution is first of all an impossibility and second of all it is a
religion, of course a false religion at that.
Satan has devised this plan in order to take God out of the picture and
so the result of it is that there is now no fear of God for those who follow
evolution.
When
one does not worship the One True God then they have to make up their own god
and when they do that they will make him like they are. Psalm 50:21b says “You thought that I was
just like you; I will reprove you.”
I
am thankful that God does not change and the Jews should have been happy as
well. God has made promises to Israel
that He will keep, promises that as of yet have not been fulfilled, but will be
fulfilled in the future, like the coming Kingdom with the Messiah, Jesus Christ
leading it.
Do
you remember when God was so upset with the nation of Israel when He brought
them out of Egypt, and Moses, on two occasions reminded God that He does not
change for He was about to kill all of them and make another nation from Moses,
but that would have violated His promises to Israel and God could not do that. Dr. Wiersbe writes “The same principle
applies to believers today, for 1 John 1:9 states that God is ‘faithful and
just to forgive our sins.’ God is
faithful to His promises and just toward His Son who died for our sins that we
might be forgiven. (See also Num. 23:19;
Deut. 4:31; and James 1:17).”
As
we conclude this first main section in Dr. Wiersbe’s outline we can say that
Malachi has already proved that God is just.
In our next Mail Point we will see that he discusses the fact that the
people of his day were unjust and the reason that they are unjust is because
they have been robbing God, robbing Him of what is rightfully belongs to Him. 11/28/2016
9:43 PM
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