Faithful God

For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Psalm 108:4

Faithful
You are ever faithful
You are ever faithful
To us God

Sunday during our worship time we sang about our Faithful God. The song and its words have been stuck in my head. I think we don’t fully comprehend the faithfulness of God.

Consider the synonyms for faithful: ” loyal, constant, true, devoted, unswerving, steadfast, dedicated and committed.” Faithful means “keeping promises.” These aren’t common qualities these days. What struck me about the words, stuck in my head, is that God is faithful “to us.” He deserves Faithfulness; we don’t. He is faithful, although we are almost universally “unfaithful.” He is committed to us; when we aren’t often even mindful of Him.

It’s difficult for us to comprehend a faithful God because we are so unfaithful. We are fascinated by the new and different, whether it’s products, programs or people. Sticking with just one of anything really isn’t very cool. We drift from relationship to relationship, job to job, church to church. As soon as something no longer excites us or meets our needs, we move on. No wonder we can’t understand a God who is faithful to those who are unfaithful to Him.

And what of “keeping promises.” We certainly aren’t great at keeping promises. Since we are so bad at it, we consider ourselves “self-improved” if we just don’t make many. I don’t know exactly how many promises God makes in His word, but it’s in the thousands. Some are conditional. Many are not. He keeps every one.

Consider the joy and peace which can be ours if we can just begin to understand the faithfulness of our God. Consider how great our world would be if we could mirror just a bit of His faithfulness in our lives. When God’s will is finally done on earth as it is in heaven, faithfulness will reign.

Won’t that be good?

Blessings.