Spiritual Strength For Each Day
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17).
The eternal God is unchanging! The Scriptures teach us this very clearly. When we read that God repented of something, it is always connected with the sins of man, not with His failure. So, when it says, “And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart” (Genesis 6:6), this means nothing other than that God regretted making man and was grieved. He grieved over the consequences of sin in the man that He had made perfect. He regretted it. It is clear that the Lord cannot repent of anything He has done. God did not change His plans, for His intentions have been perfect from eternity to eternity. We cannot change His plans or ways through our prayers, but exactly the opposite takes place. We are changed through intensive prayer. God can at last do what He always wanted to do: bless, save and liberate. He is always the one who blesses. Man can never change God.
