Growing Together – Day 21: Faithfulness
READ: Numbers 23:19 - God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Malachi 3:6 – I am the Lord, I change not.
James 1:17 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
“Herein is solid comfort. Human nature cannot be relied upon; but God can! However unstable I may be, however fickle my friends may prove, God changes not. If he varied as we do, if he willed one thing today and another tomorrow, if he were controlled by caprice, who could confide in Him? But, all praise to his glorious name, he is ever the same. His purpose is fixed, His will is stable, His word is sure. Here then is a rock on which we may fix our feet, while the mighty torrent is sweeping away everything around us. The performance of God’s character guarantees the fulfillment of his promises: ‘For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee’ (Isaiah 54:10).” (A.W. Pink, The Attributes of God, 1930)
REFLECT: What is it that gives us hope that God is there when we need Him? That He can be counted on? That He can be trusted for the future? It is His faithfulness.
We have a written record of that faithfulness – the Bible. He has been faithful from creation, faithful to His promise in the garden, faithful to the people who rebelled against Him, faithful to those who have trusted Him, faithful in sending the promised Savior, faithful in providing atonement through His death, faithful to crush the serpent’s head, faithful to raise the Messiah from the dead, faithful to set the name of His Son above and apart, faithful to glorify His justice and mercy in every believing heart, faithful to send His Spirit to guide and direct, remind and correct. He is faithful and He does not change – Great Is His Faithfulness!
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