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"Thou, Lord, remainest forever; thy throne from generation to generation." - Lamentations 5:19.

The instability of many of the things with which we have to do in this world, only tends to make the believer appreciate the more, by contrast, the immutability of his God. The Lord of all sits upon his throne, and before him the universe passes like a panorama. He is unchangeable in character as well as in sovereignty. As we follow the indications of geology into the dim chambers of what seems to be a past eternity, it is a comfort to think there was then the same God that we now know; presiding over the strange processes of those times with the same wisdom and power that now dwell in him; have the same boundless love that has been so marvellously exhibited in our dispensation; the very same Being in fact who became incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ, spoke graciously to man and made an atonement for the sins of men. Too often the idea of immutability is connected in the minds of men with that of insensibility. But this is an error. There is but one immutable Being in the universe, and his name is LOVE.

Clouds and darkness are around about the throne of God, so that men see not that throne, and remain voluntarily ignorant of its existence. The thrones of this world are alone visible to them. To know what monarchies they stand in awe of, we have only to ascertain from their conduct whose commands they obey, whose will they execute. We find that they are influenced by mandates that come not from the throne of God. But all these inferior thrones and dominions vanish away. How many have come and gone since the prophet wrote these words. And as the others have passed away, so those that now exist must disappear from earth. That government that has in it the elements of perfect stability, man has not succeeded nor will succeed in devising;.

Thou, Lord, remainest forever: to whom then shall we go, but to thee? Our immortal souls awakened by thy Spirit, find themselves in the midst of a creation that crumbles at the touch, and are filled "with consternation as they behold themselves cast upon the billows of a world that has no one element of immortality to which they can ally themselves, nothing akin to themselves to afford them a hope of companionship in the day when all beside shall have dissolved. We flee to thee, Lord, and find in thee a thousand times more than even the permanency of present things would have yielded us.

What gives the unchangeableness of God such a value in our eyes is that we may take refuge in him and be made like unto him. When we shall have been made perfect in love, we shall be able to look from the calm heights of an inviolate safety, upon the elements of change and destruction.

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