Dear Christian friends –
I want to eat at Subway. No, Wendy’s.
I want to go grocery shopping. No, watch a movie.
I want to take a nap. No, go for a walk.
I want to do this. No, I want to do that.
Daily, we all change our minds.
But God doesn’t.
God does not change His mind about His promises to us.
“For I the Lord do not change,”
spoke our Lord through the prophet Malachi in chapter 3, verse 6.
This statement is confirmed by Paul who wrote these words in 2 Corinthians 1:19-22:
“For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes. For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory. And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
God does not change His mind about His promises to us.
All that God has promised us has been or will be fulfilled through His only Son Who has taken our sins in His body on the cross and who has risen from the dead, guaranteeing that we, too, will rise from the dead and will live forever with Him in Heaven.
We respond with the great “Amen!” “Yes! Yes! Yes! It shall be so!”
In Christ alone, God fulfilled all His Old Testament promises of redemption.
In Christ, we stand unwavering in faith.
In Christ, we are His own.
In Christ, we look forward in hope and joyful anticipation to seeing our Savior face to face!
We live as redeemed people of the victorious Lamb of God. So, when we walk through the valley of the
shadow of death we say with confidence, “Lord, I believe. Help, my unbelief.”
Easter is coming, Pastor Hartwig