January 14

I am the Lord, I change not.—Malachi 3:6.

IS it a constant source of comfort to me to know that as God is unchangeable, so are his promises? As he has promised to teach, guide, provide for, and save me, will he not do it? And as he is unchangeable in his words of comfort, do I take warning from the fact that he is so in his words of admonition? And does this thought make me watchful against sin?

Whoever is changeable, God is not; whoever false, he is true; whoever may deceive, he is faithful. He will abide by his word; make good his promises; be ever mindful of his covenant. He changes not in his love, which is eternal; in his purposes, which are from everlasting; in his relation to us, for he is our Father; in his sympathy, by which he feels for us in every joy and sorrow. As he is faithful to us, let us be so to him.—JAMES SMITH.

He who looks upon Christ through frames and feelings, is like one who sees the sun on the water, and so sees it quivering and moving as the water moves. But he that looks upon him in the glass of his word by faith, sees him for ever the same.—NOTTIDGE.

Frames and feelings fluctuate;

These thy Saviour ne'er can be;

Love itself may oft abate;

Learn thyself in Christ to see;

Then be feelings what they will,

Jesus is thy Saviour sin!