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Numbers chapter 23, verse 19.

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 do it? Has he spoken?

And will he not fulfill it?

Oh, these verses are a clear picture of the immutability of God,

which means the unchangeable nature of God, and specifically his word, that which God says,

God does. When God speaks, we can count on his word. You know, I hope that that's true in my life, that my word is good.

At the same time, I know.

So assume the best of motives in me or you, for that matter.

And we say, okay, I'm going to do this.

I'm committed to doing this.

I promise to do this. It's still possible, even when we

mean that, like totally, for something to come up a month later, a year later, that totally changes

the circumstance in a way you never saw coming, and you're not able to do that.

Or maybe something happens to you, and you're not able to do that, something that was

totally out of your control. And so you were saying, I'm going to do this, but then something

happens to you, and you were just physically not able to do that anymore. Like you're, you don't

keep your word. And it's not even because you, you, we're trying to

lie or sin. It's just because, well, we are fallible. We're not always true to our word. Even

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