God is Faithful
“No, I (Jesus) will not abandon you as orphans - I will come to you.” - John 14:18 (NLT)
What does it mean when we say, “God is Faithful.” It means God is predictable in a very good way. You know He is not going to behave randomly, as He cannot change who He is. He is our God, and He will always keep His promises.
When He has promised He will always be there for us, we can be sure that He will be there for us when we need Him. Not in the way we want Him to be, but in what we need Him to be.
IMHO, the one person that understood God’s faithfulness the best was Job. He had everything going for Him, and the Devil conspired against him while God allowed it to happen. What he needed was some assurance from God that God is still faithful because he was.
What did he get? Three idiots as friends trying to give him “spiritual advice.”
When the nightmare began for him, his first response was, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” I mean, what was he thinking? He was fully entitled to be upset and even whine to God about what just happened to him. Nope, he praised God.
Am I suggesting we should just put up the face and praise God when things fall apart for/before us? Far from it. When we feel like we are in the valley where light seems to be hiding from us, we need to recognize the fact that we have no power nor the ability to change anything.
No, I am not asking people to jump in and scream, “Thank you, Jesus!” Yes, that would be one of the ways we can praise God, but not the only way. Proclaiming that God is Faithful and God is Sovereign are also ways to praise Him.
It is a recognition that God is our God, and it is not about us. If we lose our ways, He will come for us. If we lose what we think defines us, He will come and help us remember who we are: children of God.
What does that mean? It means our identity is not with what we have or the wealth of our name. It means our identity is not how many initials we have on our business cards. It means our worth is not about the “legend” we leave behind. Our identity is what kind of relationship we have with God.
No matter how lost we feel, He will come for us. We can trust Him.
