Dear Ones:
There are some things that never change…and one of those is the One depicted in a great hymn as, “Immortal, invisible, God only wise; In light inaccessible, hid from our eyes, Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious, Thy great name we praise.” Again, in John’s “Revelation” of the glorified Christ, he looks into heaven through a door, and sees “four beasts full of eyes before and behind…they rest not day and night, saying, ‘Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.'” (Rev. 4:6-8) Why this vision of these beasts? I believe that they represent the calling of God to the whole of creation to grasp and declare that there is an immortal constancy of God which never changes, regardless of the shifting circumstances of this earth, or the clouds that might fill our sky. There is a message in that constancy, and it is that God, in His Holy, unique, distinct, and utterly wonderful character, never changes. He is to the believer, day and night, year to year, unceasingly the same, the Almighty, Sovereign, whose kingdom WILL come and His will WILL be done…in earth, in us, as it is in heaven.
So, what does this mean to us, and how does this knowledge apply to our lives? This truth is the basis for God being, and being taken, as our “Refuge” and “Strength.” If you will look carefully, you will see in the Psalms, especially in the Psalms of David, the authors are consistently “TAKING” the Lord to be certain things to them, and this according to the knowledge of their need. For example, God is our Keeper, our Salvation, our Joy, our Wisdom…our Love. If we look at Christ, in whom is the fullness of God, and in whom we live and have our being, we see that we have ALL in Him for every need, but He must be taken by faith, specifically for that need. We need to make Him, the everlasting, and unchanging Christ, to be our all…and this in light of every need, both temporal and eternal. He is faithful.
Today Lord Jesus, we would echo the words of the hymn writer, and make them our own: “I take Thee Lord to be my all, since all Thou art is mine. I nothing have; I nothing am. That nothing Lord is Thine. Thou shalt be everything to me, in all things my sufficiency.”
Love, Dad