What Can and Can't Change in the Believer's Relationship With God

What Can and Cannot Change in Our Relationship with God

In a chart entitled 'Our Relationship with God,' Bryan Chapell lists what can change and what cannot change.

What Can Change

our fellowship
our experience of his blessing
our assurance of his love
his delight in our actions
his discipline
our sense of guilt

What Cannot Change

our sonship
his desire for our welfare
his actual affection for us
his love for us
our destiny
our security

--Bryan Chapell, Holiness by Grace: Delighting in the Joy That Is Our Strength (Crossway, 2001), 196 (Per Dane Ortlund).