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“God is Faithful”
Scripture is ripe with reminders that we serve a faithful and trustworthy God…
Deut. 7:9 – “Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments”
Deut. 32:4 (NIV) – “He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he”
Psalm 71:22 – “Also with the lute I will praise You—And Your faithfulness, O my God! To You I will sing with the harp, O Holy One of Israel”
Psalm 89:8 – “O LORD God of hosts,Who is mighty like You, O LORD? Your faithfulness also surrounds You”
Psalm 98:3 – “He has remembered His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of Israel;All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God”
Hosea 11:12 – “Ephraim has encircled Me with lies, And the house of Israel with deceit; But Judah still walks with God, Even with the Holy One who is faithful”
1 Cor. 1:9 – “God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord”
1 Cor. 10:13 – “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it”
2 Cor. 1:18 – “But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No”
Heb. 3:6 – “But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast”
When we use the term “faithful”, our minds often go straight to our duties toward God; We know of our need to be faithful and true to Him in all we do. But we have to remember why faithfulness is demanded from us in the first place: Because God has been faithful to us first! His love and His care for us came long before ours, and His faithfulness to us as a righteous God long precedes our efforts at faithfulness! Yet we sometimes lose sight of that truth and begin to wonder if our own God is going to let us down. We sin at times because we begin to question if His word tells the truth about sin and righteousness, and we question His trustworthiness and providential care even though He has proven to be faithful many times both in scripture and in each of our lives.
We need to know that Satan loves nothing more than to convince us that God is not to be trusted, and this is the reason that trusting God has always been one of the greatest struggles of God’s people. Even in the very beginning, the serpent sought to ruin God’s credibility with Eve, claiming to her that the forbidden fruit would actually make her like God. We often fall prey to this trick as well, thinking that the promises the world makes (by Satan’s influence) about sin really sound more believable than the promises God has made about being righteous. There is no more ancient an example of this problem than Eve in the garden, yet there is no greater present danger!
We are entering a new decade now and Christ still has not come. Perhaps we know of some in the world who have stopped believing that He ever will because they think it just seems too long! If God really intends on sending His Son back to gather the faithful and , then what is He waiting for?! Has He forgotten about us? Is He wavering in His faithfulness to His own people? Well, the scriptures indicate that He may be waiting on some lost souls to come to Him before He ends this world; Peter tells us, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Pet. 3:9); God has not forgotten about us, and He is not late! Perhaps the hope of God is that more will come to repentance before He sends His Son!
God has been faithful to us, and He will continue to be faithful – The question will always be, are we going to be faithful to Him so we may receive the blessings He has promised?
