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IMMUTABILITY
神的不变性
“I am the Lord, and I do not change. That is why you descendants of Jacob are not already completely destroyed.” Malachi 3:6
“我是耶和华，我不改变。所以你们雅各的子孙没有灭绝。” 玛拉基书3:6
The Unchangeableness of God.
神的不变性。
What an anchor for a storm tossed sea!
这是在风暴之海中何等的锚啊！
Change is our portion here!
变迁是我们在世上的分！
Scenes are altering. Joys are fading.
景物在改变。喜乐在消逝。
Friends! some of them are removed at a distance; others have gone to their ‘long home’.
朋友们！有些离我们远去；其他的则已归入他们的’永恒之家’。
Who, amid these checkered experiences, does not sigh for something permanent, stable, enduring?
在这些变幻莫测的经历中，谁不渴望一些永恒的、稳固的、持久的事物呢？
The vessel has again and again slipped its earthly moorings. We long for some secure and sheltered harbor.
船只一次又一次地脱离了尘世的系泊。我们渴望一个安全庇护的港湾。
“I am the Lord, and I do not change!” Heart and flesh may faint; yes, do faint and fail.
“我是耶和华，我不改变！”心灵和肉体可能疲惫；是的，确实会疲惫和衰败。
But there is an unfainting, unfailing, unvarying God.
但是有一位永不疲倦、永不失败、永不改变的神。
All the changes in the world around cannot affect Him.
周遭世界的一切变化都无法影响祂。
Our own fitfulness cannot alter Him. When we are depressed, downcast, fluctuating; our treacherous hearts turning aside “like a broken bow,” He does not change.
我们的反复无常无法改变祂。当我们沮丧、消沉、动摇；我们诡诈的心”如断了的弓”偏离时，祂依然不变。
“God who cannot lie,” is the superscription on His eternal throne; and inscribed on all His dealings.
“永不说谎的神”是祂永恒宝座上的铭文；也刻印在祂所有的作为上。
“I am the Lord, and I do not change!” This forms a blessed guarantee that nothing can befall me but what is for my good. I cannot doubt His faithfulness. I dare not arraign the rectitude of His dispensations. It is ‘covenant love’ which is now darkening my earthly horizon. This hour He is the same as when He “spared not His own Son!”
“我是耶和华，我不改变！”这构成了一个蒙福的保证，凡临到我身上的都是为了我的益处。我不能怀疑祂的信实。我不敢质疑祂的安排的正直。是’约中之爱’正在使我尘世的地平线变暗。此时此刻，祂与”不爱惜自己的儿子”时是一样的！
Oh, instead of wondering at my trials, let me rather wonder that He has borne with me so long! It is because of the Lord’s unchanging mercies that I am not consumed. Had He been man, changeful, vacillating, as myself, long before now would He have spurned me away, and consigned me to the doom of the cumberer.
啊，与其惊讶于我的试炼，不如惊叹祂如此长久地容忍我！正是因为主不改变的怜悯，我才没有被灭绝。若祂如人一样，像我这般善变、摇摆不定，早就弃绝我，将我交付给累赘者的命运了。
“I am the Lord, and I do not change!”
“我是耶和华，我不改变！”