not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill? (Numbers 23:19)
Thoughts: Greek and pagan gods were fickle, changing with the clouds. But the God of the Bible was faithful when we were faithless; purposeful when we were purposeless; reliable when we were unreliable. God does not need to change His mind for He sees the future and all variables before they happen. A great chess master understands all the options quickly. A sophisticated man-made computer can create computer models to forecast stock futures and have even gotten much more reliable about forecasting storm tracks. God not only knows the variables, but He can (and does) control them. Because God is so faithful and reliable we can be assured that the promises He makes He will keep. Promises like holiness is the best way- and what is good one second is still good the next; Promises like He will love us to the end and we can rest assured of the hope of heaven without God changing the rules (or His mind) about inviting us there. The essential tenet below affirms God as "immutable, impassible and ineffable nor becoming more than He has been since there is no potential or becoming in Him." God is perfect and does not need to grow in knowledge or feeling toward us or anything else. It is a wishful illusion to think we can change God's being by our behavior or wishes. God is the solid rock and thus we change toward Him not vice versa. But as the solid rock, we can stand on Him with firm assurance.
Prayer: Lord, my Rock, help me to trust and rely on you.
Mysteries
A. Trinity
The triune nature of God is the first great mystery of the Christian
faith. With Christians everywhere, we worship the only
true God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - who is both one
essence and three persons. God is infinite, eternal, immutable,
impassible, and ineffable. He cannot be divided against
Himself, nor is He becoming more than He has been, since
there is no potential or becoming in Him. He is the source
of all goodness, all truth and all beauty, of all love and all life,
omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. The three persons
are consubstantial with one another, being both coeternal,
and coequal, such that there are not three gods, nor are there
three parts of God, but rather three persons within the one
Godhead. The Son is eternally begotten from the Father, and
the Spirit proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son. All
three persons are worthy of worship and praise.
(Table Rock State Park SC)
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