God Will Not Change His Mind About You

Every believer knows what it feels like to waver. One day, you’re confident in your salvation. You pray with clarity, read with hunger, and walk in step with the Spirit. But then something happens maybe a season of grief, repeated failure, or silent distance from God and you begin to question everything. Am I really saved? Does God still love me? Have I fallen too far to return? The uncertainty can feel like a storm, and your faith, like a flickering candle about to be snuffed out.

But Scripture gives us a steel beam to cling to in those moments a promise that doesn’t waver, because it rests not on us, but on God.

“I will be their God, and they shall be my people” (Jeremiah 31:33).

This isn’t a seasonal sentiment or a conditional contract. It is the bedrock promise of redemption that threads its way from Genesis to Revelation. And its strength lies in the One who makes it.

The Unchanging Anchor

Toward the end of the Old Testament, in the little book of Malachi, we meet a people who knew what it meant to wander. Judah had grown cold. Their worship was hollow, their priests corrupt, and their hearts far from God. If salvation depended on their consistency, they would’ve been undone.

And yet, tucked in the midst of God’s rebuke is a breathtaking sentence:

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed” (Malachi 3:6).

God’s people had every reason to be disqualified. But God points not to their performance, nor even to His past deeds, but to His own nature. “I do not change.”

That’s the only reason they had hope and it’s the only reason we do too.

A God Unlike Us

Our hearts shift like the tides. We’re often sincere and inconsistent, resolved one moment and wandering the next. But God is not like us. As John Calvin said, in this verse, “God reasons from His own nature.” He doesn't assure Judah by reminding them of what He’s done. He anchors them in who He is.

This is crucial for us to grasp. Because when doubt rises and shame whispers that we’ve gone too far, God’s unchanging character becomes our immovable refuge.

He doesn’t go back on His word. He doesn’t revoke His love. When He sets His affection on you before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4) He means to keep you forever. You may stumble. You may even run. But the unchanging One is not letting go.

“If we are faithless, he remains faithful for he cannot deny himself” (2 Timothy 2:13).

When You Doubt

What do you do when you question if God still loves you?

Remember: His promises are not rooted in your performance but in His person. Your salvation isn’t grounded in the strength of your grip on God, but in His grip on you.

The great theologian Petrus van Mastricht wrote, “Our immutable God is a rock... whose saving gifts he does not take away” (Romans 11:29). So when the voices of condemnation crowd your mind, answer them with God’s own words: “I do not change.”

You’re not held fast because you never doubt. You’re held fast because God never changes His mind about His children.

When You Wander

But what if your struggle isn’t doubt, but distance? What if you’ve wandered into sin and feel unworthy to return?

Malachi offers hope for you, too. God speaks through the prophet “Return to me, and I will return to you” (Malachi 3:7).

Not, “Return to me and we’ll see how it goes.” Not, “Return to me and maybe I’ll forgive you.” But a firm promise: “I will return to you.”

Even among those who doubted and dismissed Him, God kept a remnant those who feared Him, who repented, who turned back. And of them, God said, “They shall be mine” (Malachi 3:17).

Your failures don’t disqualify you from mercy. His door is still open. His heart is still welcoming. Because He has not changed.

For the Wavering and the Weary

In both our doubting and our disobedience, God’s promise remains:

“I will be your God, and you will be my people.”

It is a covenant secured not by our constancy, but by His unchanging nature. And it holds fast even when we do not.

So if today finds you weary, unsure, or ashamed lift your eyes again. Look past your record, past your questions, to the Rock that is higher than you. And hear your Savior say,

“Return to me, and I will return to you.”

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