When you think of someone who is faithful, what kind of person do you imagine? Well, I think of someone I can trust; rely on; depend on…someone who does what she says she’s going to do, a person who always keeps his promises. We are to think the same of God when we read of His faithfulness, but, with God there is still so much more because being faithful is not something He does, it’s Who He is; it is His character, it is His nature.
Do you realize that Love is the driving force of faithfulness? If you think about it for just a moment you’d see that without love no-one can be faithful. It is the great love that God has for you and me, and for His Son, Jesus Christ, that allows Him to remain faithful.
In Apostle Paul’s second letter to Timothy, he let him know that God remains faithful because He cannot disown Himself.
This means that God cannot deny Himself, is bound by who He is, cannot contradict Himself, and therefore must be true to every facet of His character. In other words, God, who is Love, is also abounding in Faithfulness. Understand also, that contained within the very Fruit of God’s Spirit is the attribute of Faithfulness, therefore Faithfulness, like Love, is an inherent part of God, so, when it comes to God, you cannot divorce one from the other.
God doesn’t suddenly decide that He doesn’t love something or someone. He doesn’t change His mind about His faithfulness based on trends or fashions or how He may feel from one minute to the next. God is steady, steadfast and unchanging.
Unlike people who will disappoint you or change their minds, God will always be there for you. His love for you will always be constant and His faithfulness toward you is far reaching. Psalm 57 tells us that God’s faithfulness reaches to the roof of heaven. That’s incredible! Too often, we only look for God’s demonstration of faithfulness in certain ways and don’t recognize that God’s faithfulness is all around us, after all, it is His faithfulness that’s holding all of creation together.
Now that’s cause for celebration!
Believe me when I tell you that the moment you begin to truly realize how trustworthy God is, your perspective of life will change. As you realize that He will always be there for you, that He’ll never let you go or let you down, you’ll find comfort in even the worst situations because you’ll know for sure that God really loves you in an amazing way and that will never change. God thinks you’re amazing and has planned out your destiny, and not any old destiny but God has taken His time to design a good plan; He hasn’t left it up to you since He wants to ensure that your future turns out great.
In Jeremiah 29, verse 11(MSG), God Himself says, “I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.”
What’s the future you hope for? Nobody hopes for a lousy messed up future. I know I’m not and I’m quite sure you’re not.
Imagine you’re reading a book. Now, you don’t go helter skelter, from one page to another, you’d read one page then move on to the next. Not so? And when you’re on the page you’re reading, that’s the page you’re seeing, right? Well that’s how your life is; you can only see one page at a time, but God, the Author of your book, your life, knows every word He’s written on every page of your life, even those things that haven’t yet happened in your sight, He is fully aware of.
Everything that God has planned for your future is for your eternal benefit. He intends for you to have a flourishing finish. And the awesome thing about God is that He watches over His word to perform it, so that you can confidently claim it. Yes, it is that simple…remember God’s faithfulness, He is not like man, He does not lie…He won’t say something and not follow through, He will never make a promise and not act on it…all you have to do is take God at His word, believe Him, trust that, even if it doesn’t seem that way right now, He has already designed a brilliant future for you, and all you have to do now is claim God’s future.
Today, I urge you to be authentic in your commitment to God. My brothers and sisters, God loves you immeasurably more than you can ever think or imagine, and it is out of this unspeakable passion that God is faithful to you and has lovingly created you with a complete plan for your best life ever. So I encourage you to celebrate God’s faithfulness and boldly claim God’s future, for they are both yours, an inheritance through Jesus Christ, your Lord and your Saviour.
Amen†
“Celebrating God’s Faithfulness; Claiming God’s Future”
Shelley Johnson 27-May-2017
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