In a world of constantly changing economic conditions and values, many people are concerned as to their future prospects regarding employment, the cost of living, and other factors tending to affect their way of life. In such circumstances it can be helpful to ask oneself, "Does God change?"
In Christian Science one learns that nothing can interfere with God's constant harmonious government of His spiritual creation, including man, whom He maintains with unerring wisdom and love. We read in the Bible: "I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."Mal. 3:6;
God, the divine Mind, and His ideas constitute the only reality, whose substance is changeless and permanent because it is wholly spiritual, not dependent on material conditions, and not subject to depreciation or loss, fluctuation or failure. This fact is basic to the teachings of Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy writes, "Immortal Mind is God, immortal good;in whom the Scripture saith 'we live, and move, and have our being.' This Mind, then, is not subject to growth, change, or diminution, but is the divine intelligence, or Principle, of all real being; holding man forever in the rhythmic round of unfolding bliss, as a living witness to and perpetual idea of inexhaustible good."Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 82-83;
