Homilist Psalm 102:27 But you are the same, and your years shall have no end. I. IT IS AN UNDOUBTED FACT. This is clear — 1. From reason. Immutability enters into the essence of our idea of Deity. 2. From nature, which in its essence seems immovable. 3. From the Bible. II. IT IS PECULIAR TO HIMSELF. Mutation is the law of the material universe, so far as its laws are concerned. Geology shows that the history of the earth is the history of revolutions. "The mountains falling come to nought," etc. Astronomy tells of planets that once shone in the heavens, that are gone, and of new ones that appear. The vegetable and animal systems of the earth are changing every hour. Mutation is also the law of the spiritual universe. Human minds are constantly changing in thoughts, feelings, purposes, character. Angels changed. Some have fallen from heaven to hell. But God sits enthroned above all these changes, more fixed than the sun above the shifting clouds, or the rock amidst the surging waters. God alone is unchangeable. III. IT IS A BLESSING TO THE UNIVERSE. Were God unholy, untruthful, malevolent, the universe might well pray for a change in Him. But He is eternally opposite to all this. He is infinitely holy, true, and loving, and a change in Him would be a terrible calamity. We would not have Him change. We rejoice that we can look up to Him midst all the false and morally foul and infernally malignant, and feel that there is One who is ever pure, ever true, ever merciful and good. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. |
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