Sunday's Hymn: God's Immutability

I suppose I’ll just carry on with hymns that teach something about the various attributes of God. We’ve looked at hymns that featured God’s eternality and his infinity, and today’s hymn from Horatius Bonar teaches us about another (but still closely related) characteristic of God—his unchanging nature. 

That God is immutability ensures his faithfulness to us. We can count on the lasting peace we have with him because he is unchanging.

I Hear the Words of Love

I hear the words of love,
I gaze upon the blood,
I see the mighty sacrifice,
And I have peace with God.

’Tis everlasting peace,
Sure as Jehovah’s Name;
’Tis stable as His steadfast throne,
For evermore the same.

The clouds may go and come,
And storms may sweep my sky;
This blood-sealed friendship changes not,
The cross is ever nigh.

I change—He changes not;
The Christ can never die;
His love, not mine, the resting-place;
His truth, not mine, the tie.

My love is oftimes low,
My joy still ebbs and flows;
But peace with Him remains the same,
No change Jehovah knows.

More on God’s immutability:

• God’s Immutability
  

Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• O Sacred Head, Now Wounded at joythruChrist
• The Collect for the First Sunday After Epiphany at Magic Statistics
• Jesus Loves Me at The Happy Wonderer
• Lord’s Day 2, 2007 at The Thirsty Theologian
  
• And Can It Be at Hiraeth
  
• The King of Love My Shephed Is at Seasoning of the Heart
• I Lift My Heart to Thee at Whatever Things…
• Will Your Anchor Hold at Home, but not alone

Have you posted a hymn this Sunday and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

Comments

[rosemary]

I've never seen this hymn before, but I love the words. "His love, not mine, the resting-place; His truth, not mine, the tie. I'm so thankful for that.