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The Faithfulness of God

How Great Is Your Love
by Mercy Me

How great is Your love?
So much higher than the Heavens
With faithfulness that reaches the sky.


Have you ever stopped to consider the faithfulness of God? Have you ever really considered it? I’m almost at a loss for words (which is saying a great deal for me!) right now by considering how faithful God is. Faithful in His love for me. Faithful in His protection of me and my loved ones. Faithful in keeping all of His promises.

James 1:17 tells us this:

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.

How faithful is our God? So faithful that there is not even imperceptible change of His character. He is constant. Constant in every way. I dare you to challenge the immutable quality of God. You will fail to find even one instance of God ceasing to be unchanged.

Within God’s faithfulness lie so many splendid things. He hears us when we call out His name. He is faithful to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He never ceases to love us. And He will see the good work that He started in us on to completion at the Day of Christ (Philippians 1:6). Amen!

2 Timothy 2 tells us that God is faithful because He cannot deny Himself. Even when we are faithless or disobedient, God remains faithful and fulfills His promises to us. Christ Himself tells His disciples that He does not give as the world gives (John 14). Jesus is saying that He does not give with conditions. There is no prenuptial agreement. He won’t ditch anchor and leave at the first sign (or millionth) of our unfaithfulness.

Instead, He does the very opposite. He gives us peace. He gives us unconditional love, grace, and mercy. He lifts us up and He becomes our source of strength, the only source that offers true strength and the ability to be faithful. How faithful is God? We have no idea, friends!

I have little doubt that one reason why we will never stop singing praises to God in eternity is because we will exist in full revelation of His faithfulness towards us. We are a holy priesthood, God’s treasured people for His own possession, and coheirs with Jesus Christ! Just thinking about the fulfillment of these words makes me want to shout with joy to the Heavens. Imagine standing before our awesome God and seeing His faithfulness from the beginning of time until the very last Day showcased. Incredible.

And to think that God is faithful in far more than just the big picture! He desires an intimate relationship with each of us and He is faithful in always being a part of our lives. He is there when we first wake up, when we lie down to sleep, and even while we are sleeping. He is there when we get married. He’s there when we lose a parent or a close friend. He is there during our great successes and horrible failures. What love! What faithfulness!

If you have any doubt of God’s faithfulness, pray. Ask God to show you how faithful He is. Ask Him to reveal Himself to you every time you open His Word. Ask Him to stretch you and challenge you to live more like He has called you to live. Ask Him to grow you in love, patience, kindness, gentleness, humility, or any other fruit of the Spirit and then expect to see Him answer your prayers. He will come through 100% of the time. He delights in revealing Himself to us and is faithful to do so every time we ask Him to.

I rejoice in that more and more every day. I rejoice in the fact that my God knows me and loves me. I rejoice that my God cares about the burdens of my heart and listens to me when I cry out with sorrow. I rejoice that my God knows my sins and comforts me when I feel unworthy of His grace and mercy. I rejoice that when I ask God to grow me and stretch me, He answers in His sovereign and perfect way. Sometimes that means trials and suffering, but I rejoice in those also because it always means deeper intimacy with my God.

God is abundantly faithful. He will never run dry because HE IS faithfulness. I encourage you all to allow God to show you just how faithful He is. Bring Him your burdens. Bring Him your fears and anxieties. Bring Him your hopes and your dreams. And watch God deliver on His promise to be faithful.

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