Sunday, April 02, 2006

A theology for enjoying God: Part 3

God will always be the consistently source of highest good and therefore will be the highest or chief delight in all existence this will not change. He will continually offer his goodness to creation to be enjoyed and delighted in.

It is one of the excellencies of the Creator which distinguishes Him from all His creatures. God is perpetually the same: subject to no change in His being, attributes, or determinations. Therefore God is compared to a 'Rock' (Deut 32:4, etc.) which remains immovable, when the entire ocean surrounding it is continually in a fluctuating state; even so, though all creatures are subject to change, God is immutable. Because God has no beginning and no ending, He can know no change. He is everlastingly 'the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning' (James 1:17

God will remain forever perfect and therefore will always be enjoyed by those who behold the radiance of his glory. As his glory will never fade or spoil all that God is today he will be forever. And all that god was in eternity passed he will be today and forever he will not nor cannot change. For all that is said and thought about enjoying God will remain consistently the same.

God is immutable in His essence. His nature and being are infinite, and so, subject to no mutations. There never was a time when He was not; there never will come a time when He shall cease to be. God has neither evolved, grown, nor improved. All that He is today, He has ever been, and ever will be. 'I am the LORD, I change not' (Mal 3:6) is His own unqualified affirmation. He cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse. Altogether unaffected by anything outside Himself, improvement or deterioration is impossible. He is perpetually the same. He only can say, 'I AM THAT I AM' (Exo 3:14). He is altogether uninfluenced by the flight of time. There is no wrinkle upon the brow of eternity. Therefore His power can never diminish nor His glory ever fade.

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