Most people say they don’t like change. For the most part, we like things to stay the same, to remain constant. The only time any of us really like change is when it is our idea to change something. Otherwise, we rebel and complain when someone suggests a change.

So here is something that should be comforting:  God’s Word does not change. If God makes a promise, He remains faithful to that Word. It also means His laws remain the same. As I said, that should be comforting. However, lots of folks want to change the message of God’s Word. That has been true ever since God spoke.

• The devil asked Eve, “Did God really say…?”
• False prophets have always been declaring “Thus says the Lord” when God said no such thing.
• People will try to convince you that passages condemning certain sins no longer apply in our world today.

The list could go on forever. Those who want to change the message of God’s Word have made themselves the authority rather than letting God’s Word be the authority. They don’t take God at His Word.

Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

Peter quoted this in his first letter.

1 Peter 1:23–25 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you.

Jesus is God’s Word made Flesh (John 1:14).  He does not change because the Word does not change

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Again, that should be comforting. The message of God’s Word is all about God not wanting our sin to separate us from Him. He took action to make sure we could be restored and forgiven. He paid the penalty so that we would not have to die forever. It is a message of love and reconciliation that we could not accomplish, so God did it for us. Listen to how Paul described it in one of his letters.

2 Corinthians 5:17–21 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

That message does not change. And those of us who know this to be true need to lovingly share that message with the world, including those who are trying to say God’s Word says something different than that.

Lord, help us to be salt and light so that we can share Your Word with the world.