God Is Faithful

Everybody needs somebody who is faithful in their lives - someone who will support us, come through for us, and stand his ground defending us . Someone who is loyal and trustworthy, constant and reliable.

For Christians, we have an eternal Father who will never ever change His mind in regard to us, never write us off, never leave us or forsake us. If we are a part of God's family by faith in Christ, then we have a Friend who sticks closer than a brother. How great is the faithfulness of our God!

When an intimidated Moses needed assurance from God, he wanted to know God's name. So God answered with His covenant name, "Yahweh: I AM WHO I AM" - Exodus. 3:14. Think about the meaning of that name. God took the present tense verb form of "to be" and used it for His name. It is a name that expresses God's eternality, but it also announces that in His nature and perfections, in His knowledge, will, purpose and happiness, He always remains the same. God never changes.

Deuteronomy 7:9 says, "Know that Yahweh your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commands."

In Malachi 3:6, God Himself testifies, "I, Yahweh, have not changed".

James 1:17 calls God "the Father of lights; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning."

Because He is faithful in character and action,

What does God's faithfulness mean to us?

1. When God speaks, it happens:

For just as rain and snow fall from heaven, and do not return there without saturating the earth, and making it germinate and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat, so My word that comes from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and will prosper in what I send it to do. - Isaiah 55:10-11

In other words, whatever God speaks, happens. Because He is the never-changing God, what He says goes.

It means He will keep all His promises. Because God is perfect, He never changes. So what He says will be just as true a million years from now as it is today. Let us count on His promises to us.

2. God will sustain me till the end.

Because of the steadfast love of the Lord, we are not cut off." When Paul wrote about this to the Corinthians, he says that " . . . our Lord Jesus Christ . . . will also confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. - 1 Cor. 1:8-9

The assurance of our salvation is not that God will save us even if we stop believing, but that God will personally see to it that we keep believing - He will sustain us to the end; He will make our hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause us to persevere.

Because He is faithful, He keeps up His side of the relationship even when I don't. 2 Tim. 2:13: If we are faithless, He remains faithful - for He cannot deny Himself.

Because He is faithful, we can depend on Him, count on Him, and look for Him to come through for us in every circumstance.