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weekly word – 12/11/2025

Attributes of God: The Faithfulness of God

Unfaithfulness has become much more common in our current days. In the business world, a man's word is not necessarily his bond. In the social world, marital infidelity is fast becoming more and more common, the sacred bonds and vows of wedlock being broken with little regard. In how many ways have we been unfaithful to Christ, including all the privileges that He has entrusted to us. As we examine the world and the time in which we currently live, it is so encouraging to know that we serve a God who always was and will always be faithful in all things, and faithful at all times.

God's faithfulness means that He is eternally reliable and true to all His promises. His character is unchanging and He always upholds what He declares. This character provides a foundation for complete trust, confidence, comfort, and hope in all that He has promised.

God's faithfulness is unwavering and consistent. His nature is pure and unchanging, making His faithfulness perfect. God's faithfulness is truthful and reliable. He does not lie or go back on His word. If He says something, He will do it. He upholds all His promises. We've seen this in all the covenants He made with people like Noah, Abraham, and David. Even when people break their part of a covenant, God never does and remains faithful in His part of the covenant. This is why we can completely trust Him for salvation, guidance and provision throughout our lifetime.

"Know that the Lord 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." Deuteronomy 7:9. This is essential to His being because without it He would not be God and it would contradict His nature.

Scripture has lots of illustrations of God's faithfulness. Over four thousand years ago God declared, "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease." Genesis 8:22. In other words, everything will continue to function just as He had created and put into motion. We will never have to worry or wonder whether or not the sun will come up in the morning or if the gravitational pull of the earth will change or if the seasons will cease to exist.

God is faithful in preserving His people. "God is faithful; you were called by him into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.' 1 Corinthians 1:9.

God is faithful in disciplining His people. I will depart and return to my place until they recognize their guilt and seek my face; they will search for me in their distress. Hosea 5:15.

Paul was confident in God's faithfulness when he said, "I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day." 2 Timothy 1:12.

We go on living day by day, not recognizing that everything about our lives, our surroundings, our health, our relationships, our well-being, and even our trials are all a result of God's faithfulness to people who don't deserve it. May we all respond to the knowledge of this with thanksgiving and praise, and may we learn to be more faithful in all of our ways.

Pastor Bryan

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