{"id":1239,"date":"2011-07-14T16:10:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:36:10","slug":"the-attributes-of-god-immutable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2011\/07\/14\/the-attributes-of-god-immutable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attributes of God: Immutable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1240\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/GOD_is_immutable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/GOD_is_immutable.jpg 545w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/GOD_is_immutable-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/07\/GOD_is_immutable-500x300.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-size: large;color: #666699\">Malachi 3:6 0 \u2014 \u201cFor I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-size: large;color: #666699\">James 1:17 \u2014 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Immutable<\/em>. What does it mean? When something is immutable that means it never changes. Ever. So when we say that God Almighty is immutable, it means that he never changes. He remains constant and faithful to His nature and character.<\/p>\n<p>In God&#8217;s immutability lies a great source of comfort for the believer.           The fact that God does not change His mind, His characteristics, His plan, or anything else is a security better than any earthly           insurance for it guarantees His quality of character and gives           security to the believer that if He has saved one of us, that saved           person will persevere to the end for God has chosen him and will           not change his mind and let that man slip through His fingers into           the breach of hell (John 10:28). No, God neither changes His plan, His covenants,           His prophecies, nor His justice; this lends greatly to His           dependability \u2014 &#8220;&#8230;there is no variation or shadow due to change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When God makes a promise or decree, it will certainly happen. This is good news!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">This post is adapted from Blue Letter Bible\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/help.cfm#2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theological FAQs page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malachi 3:6 0 \u2014 \u201cFor I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.&#8221; James 1:17 \u2014 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. Immutable. What does it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":1240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-misc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/9442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}