Introduction: Among the greatest of themes is the theme of appearance vs. reality. Think of this line from Iago, one of Shakespeare’s vilest villains, in Othello: “I am not what I am.” That is, of course, a perversion of how God spoke to Moses in Exodus: “I AM WHO I AM” (Ex 3:14a, ESV). 

Man is capable of doing something God is not: lying. God cannot lie. Think of that. If God could lie, he would be capable of change and capable of being unholy. Those are clearly not possible for the true and living God: “For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed” (Malachi 3:6, ESV) and “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come” (Revelation 4:8b, ESV). 

Encouragement: Do you have folks in your life that you can count on for consistency in truth? Do you have those you count on to consistently tell you the truth and live as people of the truth? Are you and I people like that? 

In the Christian worldview alone, you have the revelation of the God who is truth incarnate. He is utterly holy, holy, holy. He does and cannot change to be anything other than consistently holy and truthful. He tells Thomas in John 14, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life” (Jn 14:6a, ESV).

He calls our focus to himself, his character, his consistency as the only God of unchanging constancy and steadfastness and truth.

In a culture with its feet firmly planted in midair, it encourages the Christian to know the anchor, the steadfast One, the immovable, the consistent Rock of Ages, the truth incarnate.