diff --git a/include/sdbusplus/message.hpp b/include/sdbusplus/message.hpp
index f807450..749522e 100644
--- a/include/sdbusplus/message.hpp
+++ b/include/sdbusplus/message.hpp
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@
      * This api should be used sparingly and carefully, as it opens a number of
      * possibilities for race conditions, RAII destruction issues, and runtime
      * problems when using the sd-bus c api.  Here be dragons. */
-    msgp_t get()
+    msgp_t get() const
     {
         return _msg.get();
     }