Faithfulness Pt. 1

Genesis 15:18-21, Exodus 6:2-8, Isaiah 25:1, Hosea 2:16-20, Romans 3:3-4, 1 Corinthians 1:9 Psalm 26:3 

For God to be faithful means, it comes out of His character. His faithfulness is at the core of who He is. That is why it is seen throughout the whole of the bible. God’s faithfulness to a disobedient, disloyal, and forgetful people heightens what Jesus did on the cross for us. God is faithful to establishing a covenant with Abraham after the fall of man. God has been faithful to His people since the beginning, calling them whores because of how often they (and, let's be honest, us, too) leave for something more attractive. 

There is nothing I can add or emphasize to how the scriptures today show the faithfulness of God. He is faithful. We do not deserve the faithfulness of a Holy God, yet we are freely invited to experience a relationship with Him. How do we respond to something so amazing, awe-inspiring, and incomprehensible? We worship. There is nothing in us that deserves God’s faithfulness. Some of you may be thinking of how good of a Christian you are, or how you’ve been so committed to earn such commitment from God. Those very thoughts are the dirty rags you offer to a Holy God. Adam, Eve, Abraham, Sarah, Israel, Pharisees, prostitutes, tax collectors, and you and I are undeserving of God’s faithfulness. We betray Him with every sin and every good work we offer Him, he says,  “Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me...” (Jeremiah 6:20). We worship because He first committed and remained faithful. We cannot earn it nor do we deserve His faithfulness to us. 

So what do we do? Wallow in self pity because of how unfaithful we are? No, we respond to his faithfulness with worship and pray to His Spirit who dwells within us to produce faithfulness in return. We cannot be faithful without help from the One who is faithful.

Let us repent, leave our dirty rags of good works at the door and enter His throne room with worship and praise.