God's ways do not change

I've been feeling under the weather, battling a bit of a cold, fatigued and more mellow than usual but it's a time of reflection and relying on God's strength from day to day.

I wanted to share briefly from J.I. Packer's "Knowing God". May this encourage you today.

"God's ways do not change. He continues to act toward sinful men and women in the way that he does in the Bible story. Still he shows his freedom and lordship by discriminating between sinners, causing some to hear the gospel while others do not hear it, and moving some of those who hear it to repentance while leaving others in their unbelief, thus teaching his saints that he owes mercy to NONE and that it entirely of his GRACE, not at all through their own effort, that they themselves have found life.

Still he blessses those on whom he sets his love in a way that humbles them, so that all the glory may be HIS alone. Still he hates the sins of his people, and uses all kinds of inward and outward pains and griefs to wean their hearts from compromise and disobedience. Still he seeks the fellowship of his people, and sends them both sorrows and joys in order to detach their love from other things and attach it to himself. Still he teaches believers to value his promised gifts by making them wait for those gifts, and compelling them to pray persistently for them, before he bestows them."

Our God is constant, and we too are to be steadfast and immovable (1 Cor. 15:58) when it comes to living our lives out based on Biblical Truth. I pray that you are fighting sin in your life, and pursuing that path towards holiness, in order to endeavor to be more like Christ in thought, word, and deed.

Grace and peace to you.