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Hebrews 6:16-20 "Now when people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding. God also bound Himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that He would never change His mind. So, God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary. Jesus has already gone in there for us."

We live in a world where reliability is a liability because people change their minds, their choices, and even break promises. This is true in small things but magnified in large undertakings where reliability is in question.

People have tended to believe that God changes His mind with regards to them because that is the human thing we do. We change our minds, sometimes for the good and too often for things that carried through to conclusion destroy humanity from within. We change because it is a real-life indicator that there was a fall from God's goodness and grace. 

In the Garden of Eden prior to Adam and Eve chose to doubt God, even though there had never been any cause to question His goodness. That is until the "reasonable satanic lie" that God was holding out on humanity becoming all it might become via the knowledge of good and evil. 

Only God could cause His creation to become fully what He intended. They were meant to grow in wisdom and understanding in a way God had established. They were never meant to try and live life separated from the Source of their lives. Sin has broken humanity to the core.

When a person tries to make themself pleasing and acceptable to God, they find out very soon that what is broken cannot "fix" itself. God alone can restore, redeem, heal, and raise the dead. God so loved the world, His creations, that He gave His one and only Son to the world, that we might believe Him and have eternal life. There is restoration before God by God alone.

God has seen the totality of our lives already. I am comforted that when Jesus made Himself real to me that I might surrender all I am to Him, He had already factored in all my stupidity. Nothing has been or ever will be hidden from God. We are finite, our moral compass compromised by our own sin, internalized and externally manifested. We are inconsistent. We need Someone greater than ourselves to restore our lives to sanity.

Humanity is inconsistent until Jesus Christ comes and makes His home in you. Then it  becomes increasingly less inconsistent because of the consistent, eternal and faithfulness of God. "God also bound Himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that He would never change His mind." God's love for us and His provision of repentance, forgiveness, a new heart, a new spirit, a new spiritual heritage and a new spiritual DNA assure us that what God has begun in us will be brought to COMPLETITION by the day the Lord Jesus returns or calls us home.

God is unchanging in every way conceivable. His faithfulness and love are as eternal as He is eternal and unchanging, nothing can separate us from His Love. You can put the full weight of your life and circumstances upon Him. He cares for you. Do not believe the demonic insinuation that somehow, God is being unfaithful because you didn't get you own way. 

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