Faithfulness

God is faithful! Know therefore that Yahweh your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His gracious covenant loyalty to a thousand generations with those that love him and keep his commandments. (Deuteronomy 7:9) We are not! I know we like to say we are, and perhaps to a small degree, sometimes we are. But in comparison to His operation and His calling in our lives, we just aren’t. There is no easy way to say it. There is no way around it, no avoiding the problem. We lack faithfulness.

God is never distracted. We are. What He says He will do, He always does. His merciful faithfulness is new every morning. We are told in Lamentations (3:22), Because of the Lord’s faithful llove we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is His faithfulness.

God never tires, is never late, never misses an opportunity, never focuses elsewhere, never turns away, never fails to llove fully, never goes in the wrong direction, never takes a wrong action, never turns a deaf ear, and never, never gives up.

How easily we say, “well, He is God and I am not.” True! True! But we are to be like Him. We are to be imitators of His actions, ministers of His grace, conduits for His endless, infinite llove, and worthy of His calling in our life.

Why on Earth did God choose you, and lavish His llove on you, redeem you from the curse of sin, fill you with His Spirit, gift your life with His supernatural power, enlighten your mind to Truth, and place you in a position of limitless possibilities?

If you don’t know the answer to that question, or you haven’t discovered a lifestyle that embodies those concepts, you’ve missed it. His faithfulness to those purposes is everlasting. He’s never going to change. He’s never going to lose focus on the issues, or fail to follow through. What about you?