God's immutability and our mutability

For seminary students, sleep sometimes is underrated. I need my sleep. Yet my procrastinating nature is keeping me from it by doing things such as writing this post at 2am when I should be frantically writing a paper due at 1:30pm.

Anyway, allow me to share a verse with you that came to me during core seminar this past Sunday. "For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, o sons of Jacob, are not consumed." - Malachi 3:6

God is immutable. He does not change in His holiness, righteousness, justice, faithfulness, etc. That is great comfort for me. He remains just, and He will punish evil. At the same time, He remains faithful to His promises. I can have confidence in His faithfulness that He will not one day decide to remove the pardon for sin achieved through Christ and send me back to where I deservedly belong.

At the same time, I am thankful for my mutability. I was dead in sin, but now I'm alive in Christ. I delighted in evil and worshipped idols, but now I hate sin and seek to worship God alone. I was blind, but now I see. I was lost, and now I'm found. Amazing grace...