The Faithfulness of God
Have you ever reflected on what it means to be loved by God, who is truth?
He is true. So faithful is his love. Can you see the truth
of who God is to you?
Someone who will never leave you nor forsake you.
Someone whose protection over you is so sure and steadfast that they don’t even sleep, so that they can watch over you all through the night.
Someone who is so merciful that he has made his faithfulness
your shield and protection, regardless of your deservingness.
Faithful is this love.
It will draw you out of slavery from things that were
destroying you. And call you back to him. It quenches thirst and heals and
purifies you, cleanses your mind, and gives you a new family (the Body of
Christ) where love has been commanded as the highest value, as revealed in Scripture.
This kind of love doesn’t exist in human beings. Even the
very best person will still be learning love, through practice,
until their last day.
God is already the perfection of it. He is perfect in His
love.
Search him and no matter how deep you search, you’ll find
that he is true, he is faithful, he is exactly who he said he is. He said, “I
AM.”
When someone like that calls you to them, any gaps in true joining
between you two doesn’t originate in them—he’s the one who is faithful and true;
he is forever standing in position, ready to receive us. The issue is us. We’re
so prone to wander! We’re fickle in our love, even toward the one who loves us
with a perfect love. When you can really grasp that love even a little, you can
see how ridiculous it is that we run after other things and mostly run after
God last, after those other things have failed to give us what we want. Idols don’t
satisfy, and they can't save and deliver.
Whatever way we have to take to get there, it’s important
that we do come to God.
This love is demanding. Surrender comes at a price. You must accept God on his terms—he says you’re not your own. Which means the call is to release self-will and enter into agreement that the one who made you knows better than you do what’s best for you. It's to accept that he can be found. He can be communicated with, he will lead you when you follow. His promises are true. You won’t be led into darkness—you will find the light. And live by it. And become filled with it.
People who follow the way of Jesus never end up the same. The journey is a reshaping, through self-surrender to the great Potter and a willingness to be clay in His hands. These hands—God's hands—are delivering hands: they create wonders; heal; break chains; comfort; lead and guide; fight the enemies of your life for you; provide and give to you—and so much more. They will lift you out of the pit and set you on solid ground.
Who is like the Lord?
No one can do the things for us that He can do. No one can mend
a heart or restore a soul. No one else saves.
He takes us up one by one, based on a willingness to believe
and based on our faith in His son, Jesus Christ. And he delivers us. Everyone
around us might still be in chains, but the one who the Son sets free is free
indeed. You receive a whole and healed life—and not even based on any of your own
merit. The blood. It still works. The price has already been paid.
Further reflection:
And the entire Bible is a record of God's faithfulness! Take time and commune with it. He will meet you there. 🕊️