BCP Communion Service
Thurs 14th May 2009
Using the material for the 4th Sunday after Easter (p141)
God “with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” (James 1:17)
NIV: God “who does not change like shifting shadows.”
God does not change.
Malachi 3:6 – “I the LORD do not change.”
Psalm 102:27 – “you, [O my God], remain the same, and your years will never end.”
Hebrews 13:8 – “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.”
Good news that God doesn’t change. Comfort and encouragement. Trust and praise him!
Collect: “among the sundry and manifold changes of the world” fix our hearts
It would be a bad thing if I never changed but it is a very good thing that God doesn’t
God doesn’t need to change, I do!
It would be a sin for God to change!
God is perfect. If he changed he’d get worse. Eternality.
God constant, a rock, reliable, trustworthy, consistent, never lets you down, predictable (?)
Prayer of Humble Access: “but thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy”
God is unchangeably good, so he only gives us good things. All that comes from him is good.
Great is thy faithfulness!
“Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father;
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not;
As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be.”
Abide with me:
“Change and decay in all around I see;
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.”
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