{"id":4024,"date":"2009-02-23T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/ch-spurgeon\/malachi-36"},"modified":"2009-02-23T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T00:34:00","slug":"malachi-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/02\/23\/malachi-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Malachi 3:6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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""I am the Lord, I change not."" 
              — Malachi 3:6 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is
One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on
whose brow mutability can make no furrows. All things else have
changed-all things are changing. The sun itself grows dim with age; the
world is waxing old; the folding up of the worn-out vesture has
commenced; the heavens and earth must soon pass away; they shall
perish, they shall wax old as doth a garment; but there is One who only
hath immortality, of whose years there is no end, and in whose person
there is no change. The delight which the mariner feels, when, after
having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid
shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when, amidst all the changes
of this troublous life, he rests the foot of his faith upon this
truth-""I am the Lord, I change not."" <\/p>\n

The stability which the anchor gives the ship when it has at last
obtained a hold-fast, is like that which the Christian’s hope affords
him when it fixes itself upon this glorious truth. With God ""is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning."" What ever his attributes were
of old, they are now; his power, his wisdom, his justice, his truth,
are alike unchanged. He has ever been the refuge of his people, their
stronghold in the day of trouble, and he is their sure Helper still. He
is unchanged in his love. He has loved his people with ""an everlasting
love""; he loves them now as much as ever he did, and when all earthly
things shall have melted in the last conflagration, his love will still
wear the dew of its youth. Precious is the assurance that he changes
not! The wheel of providence revolves, but its axle is eternal love. <\/p>\n

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""Death and change are busy ever,
Man decays, and ages move;
But his mercy waneth never;
God is wisdom, God is love.""<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

""I am the Lord, I change not.""                — Malachi 3:6 It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows. All things else have changed-all things are changing. The sun…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}