We live in a day of paper plates and plastic cars. Everything seems to easily become here today and gone tomorrow. Life has been reduced to the indefinite, and the uncertain. In our casual speeding world, it seems nothing is reliable. However, our text gives us the assurance of God’s faithfulness that we could know and depend upon.
The ground on which God’s faithfulness rests is because of his changelessness in the business of life. His nature and the revelation that he makes of himself demonstrates how reliable it is to trust God in the past, his wisdom through our own presence being there for us because of his ability and divine resources.
Think about the times in which God’s faithfulness came through for you. Speaking from history, God took Noah through the flood. God prepared Noah for the rebirthing of the new world. He made possible the possession of Canaan. Through Moses God called his people from captivity. Every true believer knows how faithful God is by their own experience with him from time to time. He has delivered them from sin and the consequences of sin. He provided guidance and strength for all who will submit and follow him.
There are those times in the Bible that seem to display exceptions to what I’m saying as contradictions to God’s promises. Yet, a close look verifies how they actually verify God’s promises. There has been a time of fulfillment of God’s presence when in need. The very mode of fulfillment that God used shows how he provided the better way. God’s fulfillment to his faithfulness and promises are tightly connected to faith and our right conduct before him.
The areas that we can discover while honestly reviewing God’s faithfulness show us that there are no exceptions about God. Look at the promises that he made and fulfilled. Sometimes those promises do vary between chastisement and mercy depending on the spiritual condition of the believer. Neither chastisement nor mercy result from our solicitation of God. In both cases God recognizes what is best for us. Our Lord is so faithful that he is present with us at all times whether it be yesterday, today, or tomorrow. This is the result we gain from the God of glory because it is enduring and perfect.
When discouraged about a prayer not being answered or need not met, we can be tempted to doubt God’s reasoning. Instead of looking at the need we would be wiser to look at the God who supervises and supersedes the result of the need, his response to the need. As we pray, let us do it through our own faithfulness to him anticipating the steps he will take in our behalf. Praise him for the future result. Praise him for always having wisdom and caring about us under all circumstances for all reasons.
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