Muting God

Do we mute God? We'd never do that on purpose, but do we sometimes do it with the choices we make in life? Well, to understand this better let's look at the word immutable. God is immutable meaning he never changes.

Hebrews 13:8 says: "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."

God never changes his mind. He gives no private revelation contradicting his written word, the Bible. He won't direct you to do something that is clearly against what is said in the Bible. Yet often those making decisions wait for a private revelation from God, a particular circumstance, or a feeling that tells them what to do. They don't consider that Satan can open doors and orchestrate circumstances. We must check every decision out against what the Bible says in its clear commands, principles, precepts and patterns.

Here is another way that we mute God. We do it by adopting a problem solving method called "biblical" pragmatism. We find what the Bible has to say with regard to an issue and then we decide what will work in our culture. We decide whether or not what the Bible says is practical in our world. As if God gave us "temporary" truth. As if God were to write the Bible again he would have changed his mind for our generation. We are fools when we go down that road, be it in our words, in our thoughts, or in our actions.

God is immutable. We must apply his never changing wisdom to our every changing lives.