During church this morning, we heard a young lady sing a song called “You Are God Alone” which was originally written by Billy and Cindy Foote and recorded by Phillips, Craig, and Dean. In one part of the song it says of God, You are unchangeable, unshakable, unstoppable. Those three words impressed themselves on me as words that we need to remember in the coming months and years.
Already, Joe Biden has signed more executive orders than the five presidents before him combined did in the same first few days. And those executive orders broke U.S. laws, put thousands out of work, and released criminal illegals back onto our streets to rob, murder, and rape at will. Democrats have no idea of the harm that is being done to this country. One young woman posted a YouTube diatribe sneering at the idea that stopping the Keystone pipeline was putting thousands of people out of work. She ignored those whose jobs created the supplies that the pipefitters used, or housed them, or fed them, or sold them all kinds of other things as they worked their way along the pipeline’s route. Instead, she scoffed that those men would be out of a job in two years anyway when the pipeline was completed, so what did it matter? Two more years of a good paying job and 24 months to prepare and search for another job. That’s what matters! But she is totally clueless.
So what does this have to do with the three words in Billy and Cindy Foote’s song? Everything.
With rising gas prices, with increasing unemployment, with more radical regulations about transgender individuals, with cozy relationships with Iran and China (both of whom wish to see us destroyed), Christians struggle with fear and despair as they gaze at the depths of the crater into which this country is fast falling, a crater far deeper than the one that President Trump pulled us out of. But we must in all things remember that God is unchangeable. God is unshakable. God is unstoppable. And God is in control.
For whatever reason, God allowed the election irregularities that gave the presidency to a man who campaigned by hiding in his basement and not to the man who addressed crowds as large as 57,000 people at a time. It is God’s plan. We may not like it, and we certainly don’t understand it, but we must accept it. And those three words will help us.
God is unchangeable. He is the God who created the universe and the heavens and earth. He set the sun, the moon, and the stars into the vastness of the sky. He created man and woman, giving them free will. And when they disobeyed Him, He prepared a way by which they could be reunited with Him through the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus. His is all power and all glory, despite what man may say. There are many verses in the Bible which underscore this truth. In Malachi 3:6, God says to His people, “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.”
In Numbers 23:19 we read, “God is not man that He should lie, or a son of man that He should change His mind. Has He said and will He not do it? Or has He spoken and will He not fulfill it?”
And Isaiah writes, “The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of our God will last forever” (Isaiah 40:8).
God has a plan for this world just as He has a plan for each of our lives. As individuals we sometimes exercise our free will and wander away from His plan for us. But His plan for the world does not change. As the Psalmist writes in Psalm 33:11, “The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of His heart to all generations.” We may wish his plan for this country had been different, but if we remember John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life,” we can be content in knowing that however tough times become, if we believe in Christ, we are safe in the arms of a loving and unchangeable God!
God is unshakable. God loves us and will protect us. In Isaiah 54:10 we read, “’Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,’saith the Lord who has compassion on you.” It happens from time to time that God chooses to take one of His own home before we believe that He should and we wonder why that would be. Peter wondered just as we do, and asked Jesus what would become of John, who was such a close friend of our Lord. “Jesus said to him, “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me”(John 21:22). And so here is our answer, hard though it is to take. God has a different plan for each of our lives. As it happened, every one of the disciples was martyred for his faith except John. John, who gave us several books in the Bible including the book of Revelation, lived out his life and died a natural death in his old age. Some of us will live longer than others, but while we may mourn the passing of those who go home early, our duty is to follow Christ without question.
As God Himself is unshakable, so is His kingdom, and that kingdom lives within us. In Daniel 7:18 we read, “But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.” Thus, whatever we encounter in life, we can be assured that the kingdom is ours and we will reign forever with the Lord. That knowledge should make us unshakable as well.
God is unstoppable. Whatever happens in the coming years, God is unstoppable. His plan will happen when and as He intends it to. And if we are His faithful followers, we will be part of that wonderful plan. The end game is known to us. God wins. And we win with Him. In Job 42:2 we read “I know that You (God) can do anything, and no one can stop You.” The leaders of this country or of other countries may feel puffed up with pride and filled with imagined power, but they have no power but what God allows them to have. In Isaiah 40:22-24 it is written,
“It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
He brings the princes to nothing;
He makes the judges of the earth useless.
Scarcely shall they be planted,
Scarcely shall they be sown,
Scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth,
When He will also blow on them,
And they will wither,
And the whirlwind will take them away like stubble”.
We have nothing to fear. In fact, Paul reminds Timothy “ For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (1 Timothy 1:7). We serve a God who is eternal. Who is all-powerful. He is unchangeable, unshakable, and unstoppable. And as His people, so are we!