THE JOY OF GOD’S FAITHFULNESS

Post date: Mar 14, 2014 3:59:55 AM

The faithfulness of God goes far beyond just fulfilling all of His spiritual covenants to us; it goes beyond our having a robust spiritual relationship with Him in every aspect of our Christian lives. It transcends both the physical as well as the spiritual realm of all things; it impacts every aspect of our Christian lives positively; it makes us better in worship and service; it makes us very relevant and more useful to ourselves and to others every day in everything. It is through His faithfulness that we have the hope and assurance of tomorrow despite the glaring pictures of doubts and uncertainties of today.

In His faithfulness, God enables us to produce wonderful and heart warning results that is of great value to us, to others, and to God. While working and relying on God’s faithfulness, amazing results accompanies our little efforts in whatever we do even in our most trying moments in life, even in our weakest and confusing times in life, even in the most discouraged period of our lives, even when we are unable to pray the way we intended and the way we should, and even in the moment of our emptiness.

I will urge you to rather trust and rely on God’s faithfulness than trust and rely on your very best strength and disposition in life. God’s faithfulness is great and abundant, it will never end and will never cease. “My soul has them continually in remembrance and is bowed down within me. But this I recall and therefore have I hope and expectation: It is because of the Lord’s mercy and loving-kindness that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great and abundant is Your stability and faithfulness. The Lord is my portion or share, says my living being; therefore will I hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him. The Lord is good to those who wait hopefully and expectantly for Him, to those who seek Him. It is good that one should hope in and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.” Lamentation 3:20-26

The joy of God’s faithfulness are numerous, through it we have forgiveness of sin and freedom from guilt; through it we receive instructions, understanding and ability to obey and to act in the right way as instructed. Through it we receive insight into the heart and will of God for ourselves now and in the future. Though it we are prepared and preserved for better days.  

Noah survived the greatest flood in human history not through the availability of technology to accurately predict the weather for that period or through human wisdom, but through God’s faithfulness to him by revealing what he should do well in advance before the day the flood actually began. Through God’s faithfulness, He will rightly order your steps and your heart towards safety and early breakthrough before the days of trouble begins wherever you are right now. Remember, He had not, and will not abandon you in your present situation and in your present location.  

It was God’s faithfulness to fulfill His covenant promise to Abraham that He enabled Jacob to inherit the promise despite his actions against his brother. God’s faithfulness enables His mercies to completely wipe away our past, prepare us for the future, and position us to be what He said we should be in life. It was through His faithfulness that Jacob was preserved in the house of Laban after his salary was reduced ten times. It was through God’s faithfulness that Jacob did not go out empty handed after serving Laban for over fourteen years. You will not go empty handed despite the wickedness that is against you in that organization.

It was through God’s mercies and faithfulness that Paul was called, commissioned, and assigned the task of being a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ to the gentiles after spending all he could before to persecute those who believes and calls on the name of Jesus as Lord. It was God’s faithfulness to preserve Daniel in the lion’s den, to preserve Joseph till the day of his freedom from the prison. For prayers Click here