From: Suzianty Herawati
"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 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_."
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.
"Death and change are busy ever,
Man decays, and ages move;
But His mercy waneth never;
God is wisdom, God is love."
by CH Spurgeon
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"Behold, he prayeth." --Acts 9:11
Prayers are instantly noticed in heaven. The moment Saul began to pray the Lord
heard him. Here is comfort for the distressed but praying soul. Oftentimes a poor
broken-hearted one bends his knee, but can only utter his wailing in the language of
sighs and tears; yet that groan has made all the harps of heaven thrill with music;
that tear has been caught by God and treasured in the lachrymatory of heaven. "Thou
puttest my tears into thy bottle," implies that they are caught as they flow. The
suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High. He
may only look up with misty eye; but "prayer is the falling of a tear." Tears are the
diamonds of heaven; sighs are a part of the music of Jehovah's court, and are numbered
with "the sublimest strains that reach the majesty on high." Think not that your
prayer, however weak or trembling, will be unregarded. Jacob's ladder is lofty, but
our prayers shall lean upon the Angel of the covenant and so climb its starry rounds.
Our God not only _hears_ prayer but also _loves_ to hear it. "He forgetteth not the
cry of the humble." True, He regards not high looks and lofty words; He cares not for
the pomp and pageantry of kings; He listens not to the swell of martial music; He
regards not the triumph and pride of man; but wherever there is a heart big with
sorrow, or a lip
quivering with agony, or a deep groan, or a penitential sigh, the heart of Jehovah is
open; He marks it down in the registry of His memory; He puts our prayers, like rose
leaves, between the pages of His book of remembrance, and when the volume is
opened at last, there shall be a precious fragrance springing up therefrom.
"Faith asks no signal from the skies,
To show that prayers accepted rise,
Our Priest is in His holy place,
And answers from the throne of grace."
by CH Spurgeon
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