CHANGELESSNESS

In the book of Malachi 3:6 we read “For I am the Lord, I change not;” Are we looking for change; changes in our profession, business life, personal life, or in our physical body? Will a change in environment free us? How about a change in our government? Will these human changes in themselves bring us to that heavenly presence, experienced as happiness, holiness, abundance?

Christian Science teaches us that the real man as well as God never changes. “The Christian Science God is universal, eternal, divine Love, which changeth not and causeth no evil, disease, nor death.” Acknowledging this unchangeableness as our present reality is the Rock, Principle, that brings us prosperity, health, freedom to love, peace, and contentment. A change in government, atmosphere, or environment, must be found in Mind first. We must hold to the truth that God’s universe is in the nature of its creator. Then we are lifted above fading material dreams. Understanding too that man’s faculties are spiritual. Man, as idea, is also changeless, perfect, indestructible, and permanent. The sense dream is the only thing that is uncertain and changeable, so we must vehemently deny it.


This verse from our hymnal satisfies my sense of the changelessness of God and His idea man “In heavenly Love abiding, no change my heart shall fear; and safe is such confiding, for nothing changes here.” Christian Science Hymnal page 148 verse 1.