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The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father. There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind than thoughts of God. But while the subject humbles the mind it also expands it. And the subject is eminently consolatory. In contemplating Christ, there is a balm for every wound; in musing on the Father, a quietus for every grief, and in the influence of the Holy Ghost, there is a balsam for every sore. One subject we treat now — the immutability of the glorious Jehovah.

I. AN UNCHANGING GOD.

1. He changes not in His essence. We cannot tell you the substance of what we call God. Whatever it is, we call it His essence, and that essence never changes. The substance of mortal things is ever changing. All creatures change. But God is perpetually the same. He iS Spirit-pure, essential, ethereal spirit — and therefore He is immutable. His essence did not undergo any change when it was united with the manhood.

2. He changes not in His attributes. Apply to His power, wisdom, justice, truth, goodness, love. Take any one thing that you can say of God now, and it may be said not only in the dark past, but in the bright future it shall always remain the same.

3. He changes not in His plans. Has it ever been said that God began to build but was not able to finish? God altereth not His plans. Why should He? He is the All-Wise, and cannot have planned wrongly.

4. He changes not in His promises. I want immutable things; and I find that I have immutable promises when I turn to the Bible.

5. He changes not in His threatenings.

6. He changes not in the objects of His love — not only in His love, but in the objects of it.

II. THE PROOF THAT GOD IS UNCHANGEABLE. The very existence and being of a God seem to me to imply immutability. An argument may be found in the fact of God's perfection. Another in God's infinity. From the past we may gather proof. "Hath He spoken, and hath He not done it?"

III. THE PERSONS TO WHOM THIS UNCHANGEABLE GOD IS A BENEFIT. "Sons of Jacob."

1. The sons of God's election.

2. Persons who enjoy peculiar rights and titles.

3. Men of peculiar manifestations.

4. Men of peculiar trials.

5. Men of peculiar character.

IV. THE BENEFIT WHICH THE SONS OF JACOB RECEIVE FROM AN UNCHANGING GOD. "Not consumed." How can man be consumed? In two ways. We might have been consumed in hell. We might have been left to our own devices, and then where would you have been now? Remember, then, that God is the same, whatever may be removed. There is one place where change cannot put his finger; there is one Name on which mutability can never be written; there is one heart that can never alter. That heart is God's — that name is Love.

( C. H. Spurgeon.)

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KJV: For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

WEB: "For I, Yahweh, don't change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.