Text: Psalm 89:1-8
Memory verse:
“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;”
Deuteronomy 7:9
Faith and faithfulness are related. Faith is to have absolute trust in someone and his promise. It is standing on the shoulders of someone because you believe he wouldn’t throw you out sometimes. Now, who will have faith in someone who has no integrity? Who will trust someone with antecedent of breaking promises? Who will have faith in someone who sometimes fail?
To be faithful is to be unchanging and be constant at all conditions. It is being reliable and dependable. One of the attributes of God that distinguishes Him from man is His faithfulness. “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 7:9).
Unlike man, God qualifies to be trusted at all times. He will never lie or change His mind like man. “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (Num 23:19).
God doesn’t grow old as to suffer from dementia, where He forgets what He sometimes promised. When Jacob forgot the vow he made to God at Bethel, God didn’t forget. He reminded him of the promise he made about twenty years ago. He made a vow in discomfort and forgot in comfort. He made a vow in distress and forgot in prosperity (Gen 35:1). Is that not common with us too?
Even when we are unfaithful, He doesn’t respond by being unfaithful. Who would have imagined that Jesus would still love and use apostle Peter after he denied Him before His persecutors! Yet, Peter’s restoration was so paramount in His thought that He singled him out in His post resurrection greetings (Mark 16:7). Sit up for a while and think. If God will relate with you at
your level of faithfulness to Him, will you be who you are today?
People, times, seasons may change but not God. The main theme in most international conferences in recent times is climate change. Climate, government and everything has changed. Only God does not change, cannot change and will never change (Mal 3:6; Psa 102:25 – 27). Hallelujah!
Friends, if you remove faithfulness from God, then God ceases to be God any more. However, because He is God forever, you can trust Him both for now and the future. You can rest in His faithfulness. Let His faithfulness be your buckler. Let it be your backbone and the pillar that won’t give way. I want you to spend some time today to just praise God for His faithfulness.
Prayer points
1. Father, I judge You faithful and I praise You for Your faithfulness to me, my family and all that concerns me.
2. Father, thank You for being faithful to me many times when I was unfaithful in Jesus name.
Today’s declarations
1. God’s faithfulness is the pillar that I rest on.
2. I am in good hands, because God’s faithfulness does not change even with changing times and seasons.
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