[Songs in the Night - January 26]
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips. Psalm 89:34
THESE words of Jehovah God are very comforting
and satisfying to his faithful children.
As faith becomes
a basis for things hoped for, so confidence
and experience constitute a basis for faith to rest upon.
The unchangeableness of our God is one of the attractive
features of his character: his assurance is, "I am
the same, I change not."
Even when the Lord's word
or sentence is against us—as in the case of his pronouncement
against sin and sinners—and even though
his unchangeableness will not permit him to excuse
sin or clear the guilty, this very constancy becomes an
assurance to us that as God has been strict and unchangeable
in regard to the penalty pronounced, he
will be equally strict and equally unchangeable concerning
all the good promises and covenants which he
has made to us. Z'02-342 R3107:3 (Hymn 219)