God's Unchanging Nature

you find the trees that last not only far one season but many seasons, till you come to great trees like the Sequoia Gigantea in the Californian forests, that have been standing for three thousand or thirty-five hundred years, but even these decay and fall by-and-by. You rise above the level of the trees, and come to the hills that last for ages, though they are worn away by rains and snows, and are shaken by storms and upheaved by earthquakes until sometimes they disappear altogether as hills and become the beds of lakes. ¼u mount still above the hills, and there are what are called in the Bible “everlasting mountains “ that have stood ever since the world began. ¼u soar above the mountains, and you come to the planets that are constantly changing their places in the sky as they move around the sun in their annual journeys; but far beyond the planets stand the fixed stars that never have changed their place since time began. So you see that the farther up you go, the nearer you come to that which does not change, and beyond all these is He who is “the same yesterday, and today, and farever.11 He is the unchanging God and the unchanging friend of His people.