February 24 Daily Devotional

Bible Verse

"For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed" (Mal. 3:6).

Devotional

It is no small attainment to be built up in the faithfulness of God. This forms a lasting foundation of comfort for the believing soul. Changeability marks everything outside of God. Look into the church, into the world, into your family, into yourself—what innumerable changes you see on every hand! A week, one short day, what alterations it produces!

Yet, in the midst of all this change, to rest calmly on the unchangeableness of God, the faithfulness of God. To know that no alterations of time, no earthly changes, affect his faithfulness to his people. And more than this—no changes in them, no unfaithfulness of theirs, causes the slightest change in God. Once a Father, always a Father; once a Friend, always a Friend. His providences may change, his heart cannot. He is a God of unchangeable love. The promise he has given, he will fulfill. The covenant he has made, he will observe. The word that has gone out of his mouth, he will not alter "for he cannot deny himself" (2 Tim. 2:13).

Be at peace then, O tried believer! Are you now passing through the deep waters? Who kept you from sinking when wading through the last? Who brought you through the last fire? Who supported you under the last cross? Who delivered you out of the last temptation? Was it not God? Was it not your covenant God? Was it not your faithful, unchangeable God? This God, then, is your God now, and he will be your God forever and ever, And he will be your guide even to and through death.

"Great is thy faithfulness"

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Be sure to read the Preface by Octavius Winslow and A Note from the Editor by Larry E. Wilson.

Larry Wilson is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. In addition to having served as the General Secretary of the Committee on Christian Education of the OPC (2000–2004) and having written a number of articles and booklets (such as God's Words for Worship and Why Does the OPC Baptize Infants) for New Horizons and elsewhere, he has pastored OPC churches in Minnesota, Indiana, and Ohio. We are grateful to him for his editing of Morning Thoughts, the OPC Daily Devotional for 2025.