“God never fits His word to suit me. He fits me to suit His word” (Oswald Chamber).

I remember reading something profound in a Francis Chan book a while back. Basically, the idea is that if we say that God would never do something because we would never, it’s setting us up as the standard by which God must be judged. It’s making us the arbiter over what God can and can’t do.

Lately, I see quite a few who want to modify their beliefs to make the faith more palatable and Jesus easier to follow. I seem to remember something Jesus Himself said about the road to eternal life being narrow and few finding it versus the road to hell being broad and many find it, but that’s not a quote people like to bring up about Jesus. It’s more like, “Don’t judge” and all those more seemingly inclusive sayings.

If you change God to suit your feelings and your moods, you end up with another gospel. You end up worshipping a different god (and not the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob).

The idea is not for me to change what God says to accommodate my sin, but for what God says to change me. God isn’t the one who changes — He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I’m the one being changed and transformed and being made into a new creation.

If God could change, I could never trust anything He says. His promises could change. My hope of salvation could one day be secure and the next day not so much. I’d never be able to be sure I was in right standing with God.

But since God is unchanging, so are His promises. So is my hope. So I will let God’s word have its way and do its work in me because I’m the one who needs to change.