True To Himself

"I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations." (Psalm 89:1).

Faithfulness is that in God which guarantees that He will never be or act inconsistent with Himself. You can put that down as an axiom. It is good for you now and good for you when you're dying. It will be good to remember as you rise from the dead and good for all the eons and millenniums to come. God will never cease to be what He is and who He is. Everything God says or does must be in accord with His faithfulness. He will always be true to Himself, to His works and to His creation.

Now that may sound a little dry, but if you get that inside of you and build on it, you'll be glad you know it the next time you're in a tough circumstance. You can live on froth and bubbles and little wisps of badly understood theology - until the pressure is on. And when the pressure is on, you'll want to know what kind of God you're serving.

This is the kind of God you're serving: All that God says or does must accord with all of His attributes, including His attribute of faithfulness. Every thought that God thinks, every word that God speaks, every act of God must accord with His faithfulness, wisdom, goodness, justice, holiness, love, truth and all His other attributes.

The next time I'm in tough circumstances, Lord, I will trust Your faithfulness, for I know that's the kind of God I serve! Amen

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You Can Count On That!

"If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself." (2 Timothy 2:13)

God says in the Psalms that "He hath remembered his covenant for every, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations" (Psalm 105:8). And our Lord said, "Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled" (Matthew 5:18). You can count on that.

That is the fact before us: God is faithful! He will remain faithful because He cannot change. He is perfectly faithful, because God is never partly anything. God is perfectly all that He is and never partly anything.  God is perfectly all that He is and never partly what He is. You can be sure that God will always be faithful. This faithful God, who never broke a promise and never violated a covenant, who never said one thing and meant another, who never overlooked anything or forgot anything, is the Father of our Lord Jesus and the God of the gospel. This is the God we adore and the God we preach.

Oh, Lord, You are indeed perfectly faithful because that is what You are. Thank You, Father, for the kind of God You are. Amen

~A. W. Tozer~