This Is One of the divine perfections which is not sufficiently pondered. It is one of the excellencies of the Creator which distinguishes Him from all His creatures. GOD is perpetually the same: subject to no change in His being, attributes, or determinations. Therefore GOD is compared to a rock (Deut. 32:4) which remains immovable, when the entire ocean surrounding it is continually in a fluctuating state. Even so, though all creatures are subject to change, GOD is Immutable. Because GOD has no beginning and no ending, HE can know no change. HE is everlastingly "the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning" (James 1:17).

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First, GOD is Immutable in HIS essence. HIS nature and being are Infinite, and so, subject to no mutations. There never was a time when HE was not; there never will come a time when HE shall cease to be. GOD has neither evolved, grown, nor improved. All that HE is today, HE has ever been, and ever will be. "I am the LORD, I change not" (Mal. 3:6), is HIS own unqualified affirmation. HE cannot change for the better, for HE is already perfect; being perfect, HE cannot change for the worse. Altogether unaffected by anything outside HIMSELF, improvement or deterioration is impossible. HE is perpetually the same. HE only can say, "I AM THAT I AM" (Ex. 3:14). HE is altogether uninfluenced by the flight of time. There is no wrinkle upon the brow of eternity. Therefore HIS power can never diminish, nor HIS Glory ever fade.

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Second, GOD is Immutable in HIS attributes. Whatever the attributes of GOD were before the universe was called into existence, they are precisely the same now, and will remain so forever. Necessarily so; for they are the very perfections, the essential qualities of HIS being. Semper idem (always the same) is written across every one of them. HIS power is unabated, HIS wisdom undiminished, HIS holiness unsullied. The attributes of GOD can no more change than deity can cease to be. HIS veracity is Immutable, for HIS Word is "forever settled in heaven" (Ps. 119:89). His Love is eternal: "I have Loved thee with an everlasting love" (Jer. 31:3) and, "Having loved his own which were in the world, HE Loved them unto the end" (John 13:1). HIS mercy ceases not, for it is "Everlasting" (Ps. 100:5).

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Third, GOD is Immutable in HIS counsel, HIS will never varies. Perhaps some are ready to object when we read "It repented the LORD that HE had made man" (Gen. 6:6). Our first reply is, Do the Scriptures contradict themselves? No, that cannot be. Numbers 23:19 is plain enough: "GOD is not a man, that HE should lie; neither the son of man, that HE should repent." The explanation is simple. When speaking of HIMSELF, GOD frequently accommodates HIS language to our limited capacities. HE describes HIMSELF as clothed with bodily members, as eyes, ears, hands.

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HE speaks of HIMSELF as "waking" (Ps. 78:65), as "rising early" (Jer. 7:13); yet HE neither slumbers nor sleeps. When HE institutes a change in HIS dealings with men, HE describes HIS course of conduct as "repenting." Yes, GOD is Immutable in HIS counsel. "The gifts and calling of GOD are without repentance" (Rom. 11:29). It must be so, for "HE is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what HIS soul desires, even that HE does" (Job 23:13).  Change and decay in all around we see, May HE who changes not abide with thee.​

GOD'S purpose never alters. One of two things causes a man to change his mind and reverse his plans: want of foresight to anticipate everything, or lack of power to execute them. But as GOD is both Omniscient and Omnipotent, there is never any need for HIM to revise HIS decrees. No, "The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the thoughts of HIS heart to all generations" (Ps. 33:11). Therefore we read of, "the Immutability of HIS counsel" (Heb. 6:17).

Here we may perceive the infinite distance which separates the highest creature from the Creator. Creaturehood and mutability are correlative terms. If the creature was not mutable by nature, it would not be a creature; it would be GOD. By nature we tend to nothing, as we came from nothing. Nothing stays our annihilation but the will and sustaining power of GOD. None can sustain himself a single moment. We are entirely dependent on the Creator for every breath we draw. We gladly own with the psalmist, "YOU hold our soul in life" (Ps. 66:9). The realization of this ought to make us lie down under a sense of our own nothingness in the presence of HIM "in whom we live and move, and have our being."

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As fallen creatures we are not only mutable, but also everything in us is opposed to God. As such we are "wandering stars" (Jude 13), out of our proper orbit. The wicked are "like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest" (Isa. 57:20). Fallen man is inconstant. The words of Jacob concerning Reuben apply with full force to all of Adam’s descendants, "unstable as water" (Gen. 49:4). Thus it is not only a mark of piety, but also the part of wisdom to heed that injunction, "cease ye from man" (Isa. 2:22). No human being is to be depended on. "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom is no help" (Ps. 146:3). If I disobey GOD, then I deserve to be deceived and disappointed by my fellows. People who like you today, may hate you tomorrow. The multitude who cried, "Hosanna to the SON of David," speedily changed to "Away with him, crucify him."

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Here is solid comfort. Human nature cannot be relied upon; but GOD can! However unstable I may be, however fickle my friends may prove, GOD changes not. If HE varied as we do, if HE willed one thing today and another tomorrow, if HE were controlled by caprice, who could confide in Him? But HE is ever the same. HIS purpose is fixed, His will stable, HIS word is sure. Here then is a rock on which we may fix our feet, while the mighty torrent sweeps away everything around us. The permanence of GOD'S Character guarantees the fulfillment of HIS promises: "For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee" (Isa. 54:10).

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Here is encouragement to prayer. "What comfort would it be to pray to a god that, like the chameleon, changed color every moment? Who would put up a petition to an earthly prince that was so mutable as to grant a petition one day, and deny it another?" (S. Charnock, 1670). Should someone ask what is the use of praying to One whose will is already fixed, we answer, because He requires it. What blessings has GOD promised without our seeking them? "If we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us" (1 John 5:14). He has willed everything that is for His child’s good. To ask for anything contrary to His will is not prayer, but rank rebellion.

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Here is terror for the wicked. Those who defy HIM, break His laws, have no concern for HIS Glory, but live their lives as though HE did not exist, must not suppose that, when at the last they shall cry to HIM for Mercy, HE will alter HIS will, revoke HIS word, and rescind HIS awful threatenings. No, HE has declared, "Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them" (Ezek. 8:18). GOD will not deny HIMSELF to gratify their lusts. GOD is Holy, unchangingly so. Therefore GOD hates sin, eternally hates it. Hence the eternality of the punishment of all who die in their sins.

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The divine Immutability, like the cloud which interposed between the Israelites and the Egyptian army, has a dark as well as a light side. It insures the execution of His threatenings, as well as the performance of His promises; and destroys the hope which the guilty fondly cherish, that He will be all lenity to His frail and erring creatures, and that they will be much more lightly dealt with than the declarations of His own Word would lead us to expect. We oppose to these deceitful and presumptuous speculations the solemn truth, that GOD is unchanging in veracity and purpose, in faithfulness and justice (J. Dick, 1850).   -Taken From The Attributes Of GOD, by AW Pink-

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Numbers 23:19- ​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?

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1 Samuel 15:29- And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for HE is not a man, that HE should have regret.

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Psalm 102:27- ​But YOU are the same, and YOUR years have no end.

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Isaiah 48:20- Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the Everlasting GOD, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; HIS Understanding is Unsearchable.

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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.

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    -In Purpose-​

Job 23:13- But HE is Unchangeable, and who can turn HIM back? What HE desires, that HE does.                                                                               

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Psalm 33:11- The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of HIS heart to all generations.

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Proverbs 19:21- Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the Purpose of the LORD that will stand.

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Ecclesiastes  3:14-  I perceived that whatever GOD does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. GOD has done it, so that people fear before him.

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Ecclesiastes 7:13- Consider the work of GOD: who can make straight what HE has made crooked?

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Isaiah 31:2- And yet HE is wise and brings disaster; HE does not call back HIS Words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.

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Hebrews 6:17-18- So when GOD desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for GOD to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

    

​    -In Faithfulness-​
Psalm 119:89-  Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.

        

​    -In Mercy- ​​
Isaiah 59:1-  Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or HIS ear dull, that it cannot hear.

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Hosea 13:14-  Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

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Malachi 3:6-  "For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

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Romans 11:29- For the gifts and the calling of GOD are Irrevocable.