This week we begin worship with:
God is not man, that he should lie,or a son of man, that he should change his mind.Has he said, and will he not do it?Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
When quizzed one might stumble to start a sentence with "God can't . . .". But this verse calls out two things that are so deep in God's character that we do go past "won't" to "can't".
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
God is not simply truthful, God is truth, out of which a lie cannot come.
1 John 1:5
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
God is not simply unchanging, God is light, light so pervasive, He cannot produce a shadow. No part of creation, no part of us, escapes His celestial light and that cannot change.
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