God Changes His Mind All the Time

(Getting Back to a Childlike Understanding of God) 'Jesus said, 'Unless you change and become like a child, you cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' (Matthew 18:3)

De: Peter Walker

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

God does not change like shifting shadows. We know that. He is God. That would be whimsical, undependable. But like any truly loving person, God changes his mind and his heart based on relationships.

Right back with Noah and Flood, the very beginning of the Bible and of creation, look what God tells us:

‘The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become… The Lord regretted that he had made human beings, and his heart was deeply troubled.’ (Genesis 6:5-6)

The Lord regretted something he did. Something that he told us earlier he thought was ‘good’. (Genesis 1:31)

You are made in God’s image (Genesis 1:27), and do you ever regret anything? Anything that was truly a good decision, but turned bad, so you regretted it later?

So why are we surprised that God’s heart and mind are stirred and changed like ours, when we are cut from his image, created by his own Spirit?

In this short booklet we look at some examples of this in Scripture. God’s truth about this makes us more secure, not less, and closer to him, not farther away. We need to know God on his terms, from his revelation, not from our own ideas about so-called ‘sovereignty’ or ‘all-knowingness’. We make a lot of those theories up ourselves, and do not draw our understanding from what God has told us…