If you had to list ten significant changes that have occurred in your lifetime, what would you say? 

For most of us, choosing only ten would be difficult. Change marks each day, with one exception. The God we serve is unchanging. His character and his word remain consistent throughout every era of history.

We worship the same God King David worshiped. We pray to the same God the Apostle Paul talked to. We are led by the same God who brought Moses through the wilderness. We are comforted by the same God who comforted our great-grandparents. Everything and everyone changes, but God remains the same.

Times, trends, and cultures change, but not God’s word. Truth doesn’t change, but people’s perception of truth can. One of the most important tenets of theology is that God’s word is our timeless truth, authored by the “Father of lights” who does not change. How wonderful it is to stand with his timeless truth in our ever-changing world!

God’s word is a good and perfect gift that has been remarkably able to guide people throughout world history to know him and receive eternal life. God’s priority for people will never change: he wants them to spend their eternity with him.

King David’s courage was a perfect gift from God. Paul’s miracles were good and perfect gifts to his ministry. John’s vision on the island of Patmos was a good and perfect revelation of God. God has always had a plan to redeem his creation, and that plan will never change.

God will forgive all that is confessed and bless all that he is able. We can’t stop the evolutions in our world, but nothing has ever changed the good and perfect gifts that come from our eternal, unchangeable God.

Knowing God is the beginning of wisdom and that truth will never change.