You Can Count on It!

When my Granddad said something you can bet he would say the same thing tomorrow. Oh, he could change his mind but it just didn’t seem to happen very often. Generally when he said it, you could go down the road knowing he still believed it. I have know other people who might say something and in an hour they are saying something else and before you know it they have changed their mind again. I didn’t always like what my granddad might say, but I felt much more secure and safe in his word that with other people who might be “tossed around by waves”.

How much more then can we feel secure in what God has said. The psalmist wrote “What you say goes, GOD, and stays, as permanent as the heavens.” Psalm 119:89 MSG)

This is the central verse in the longest chapter in the longest book in the Bible, and it is surely one of the greatest verses in the Bible. It conveys the amazing news that the Word of God (which is the theme of the entire 119th Psalm) has existed from eternity past and will continue to exist forever in the future. It was eternally settled in the mind of God before the world was created, then gradually written for mankind to use as a guide for living this life.

Isaiah voices a magnificent claim: "The grass withers, the wildflowers fade, if God so much as puffs on them. Aren't these people just so much grass? True, the grass withers and the wildflowers fade, but our God's Word stands firm and forever." (Is. 40:8) Peter agreed and expanded on Isaiah when he said the spoke of the Word as being “living and enduring” (1 Peter 1:23).

To guarantee this great truth beyond any further question, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself made the following tremendous claim: This age continues until all these things take place. Sky and earth will wear out; my words won't wear out. (Matthew 224:35 MSG) In Matthew 5:18 Jesus affirms that God’s laws or Word will last long after everything else has eroded or been destroyed. The entire physical universe is (literally) "passing away," heading inexorably downhill toward ultimate death--with one exception! The Word and its glorious promises are eternal and immutable; they will not change!

Do you have anything in your life that is that stable and secure? You may not know all the “Words” the Bible talks about but there is one that you need to know. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) God love you in the days of John when that was written and He still loves you today. That word will not change but you will need to change your heart and simply accept that Word and His Love. Will you do that today?