If you and I were to draw a line chart that illustrates our emotional highs and lows over the course of one month,

it would look like a Richter scale after a major earthquake.

The human soul is fraught with mood swings.

God, on the other hand, is rock solid.

Malachi 36 says, I am the Lord and I do not change.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall presents another message in his in-depth series on the mystery of God's will.

We're probing one of God's amazing virtues today. Chuck titled

His message, God's mysterious immutability.

The scripture reading is found in Lamentations, Chapter 3. Please turn with me to this Old Testament section

of Scripture just beyond the book of Jeremiah, Lamentations, chapter 3, verse 19.

Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood, and bitterness.

Surely my soul remembers and is bowed down within me.

This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope.

The Lord's loving kindness indeed never cease, for his compassion's never fail.

They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.

The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I have hope in him.

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the person who seeks him. It is good that he waits silently for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth.

Let him sit alone and be silent since he has laid it on him.

Let him put his mouth in the dust.

Perhaps there is hope.

Let him give his cheek to the smiter.

Let him be filled with reproach.

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