God's Unchanging
Love!
"For I am the Lord,
I do not change."
Malachi 3: 6
During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lt. Carey H. Cash
was chaplain to battalion of frontline combat Marines.
In his memoir, A Table in the Presence, he spoke
of
praying with his troops.
“Our prayers were simple,” he wrote, “but they were
exactly what we needed. We prayed for protection,
for courage, for victory, for faith in difficult moments,
for the assurance that we were not alone, for help in
making tough decisions, for grace to endure, and for
strength to overcome."
"We relied on the power of Psalms, the will of God,
the teachings of Jesus, and the promises of
eternal
life. We clung to hope, trusted in God’s love, and
believed in divine purpose and plan behind it all.”
Like those Marines, we must trust in
God’s love and in
the divine purpose
He has for all our days.
God’s love for us is unchanging and
not dependent on our actions.
We
can trust Him during life’s battles.
"God never once,
even amidst the chaos
of war, stopped
pursuing
our own hearts."
Carey H. Cash