Faithfulness is defined as “firm in adherence to promises, steadfast and loyal in love, conscientious, staunch.”  The Bible assures us that God is faithful.  Faithfulness is an essential part of God’s nature, one of his most gracious attributes.

Faithfulness is defined as “firm in adherence to promises, steadfast and loyal in love, conscientious, staunch.”  The Bible assures us that God is faithful.  Faithfullness is an essential part of God’s nature, one of his most gracious attributes.

God is unchanging and eternal, so his faithfulness is totally reliable.  There will never be a time when his faithfulness will fail, for he cannot change – even throughout eternity.

The word faithfulness also carries the thought of truth, with stability and trustworthiness.  All of God’s purposes, words and deeds are faithful and true.  What he has promised, he will do without fail.

We see God’s faithfulness in the way he keeps his covenants.  His promise to Adam provided for the coming of the Savior.  God promised Noah that he would never again bring judgment upon the earth byuniversal flood.  God’s covenant with David included the promise that David’s kingdom would exist forever.  We now know that Jesus is the ultimate fulfillment of that promise.

Because he is God, the Lord Jesus is also faithful.  Faithfulness is the sash around his waist.  He is the faithful high priest, the faithful and true witness, the righteous Judge, the faithful Lord who strenghtens us and keeps us from evil.

God’s Faithfulness in Creation

The creation of the universe in all its immensity, the word in all its beauty and the human body in all its complexity show God’s great power.  God is strong to create and faithful tosustain.

All of God’s purposes, words and deeds are faithful and true.  What he has promised, he will do without fail.

Trying to comprehend the physical size of the universe is staggering.  The universe measures thousands of millions of light years across even the part which we can measure and study.  Just one light-year equals nearly siz trillion miles! and we know only a fraction of the universe.  Our sun is only one of the more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and astronomers think that there are billions of other galaxies in the universe.  Yet God “made the stars” and “calls them beach by name.”

The seasons of the year and the agricultural cycle of planting and harvest are secure because of God’s faithfulness.  Scripture promises that his faithfulness reaches to the clouds.  The seas have boundaries which are set by God.

Our intricate bodies are also the result of God’s  cretive genius.  The 206 bones in the human body are a marvel of engineering.  The thigh bone is stronger than reinforced concrete.  The large paired muscles of the arms and legs use energy more efficiently than a car motor.  The human heart is a complex network of interconnected muscle fibers, pumping without a rest throughout an entire lifetime, moving more than 500,000 tons of blood.  The 27 bones of the hand are moved by tendons from the large powerful muscles in the forearm, plus much smaller muscles in the hand itself.  This arrangement gives the hand extraordinary strength and amazing dexterity, without bulk.

And the complex world of molecular biology gives us new revelations of the wonders of God’s mind.  Each human cell contains chromosomes, and each chromosome contains thousands of genes.  These genes are made up of complex sequences of DNA molecules. The addition or loss or alteration of even one gene has profound, even fatal consequences.  We are now learning only a small part of these complexities, just beginning to “map” the genes.  As with the universe, the little we know about the genes only underscores the complexity of that which we do not know.

The fact that all the universe, the world and we ourselves are maintained and sustained rests on God’s creative faithfulness.  For by him all things were created, and in him all things hold together.  Physicists and theoretical mathematicians are searching for the “unifying principle” that one great mathematical formula which will unite all known physical laws and facts.  Jesus Christ is that great unifying Principle made flesh.  Christ is the Agent of creation.  He who creates all things and illumines all things also holds all things together.  If his faithfulness could fail, this universe and we ourselves would cease to exist.

For your meditation

God has made and fashioned us.  He has implanted within us appetites that only he can satisfy; he has placed us amid circumstances of unusual difficulty and entrusted to us work of unwonted importance; he has committed to us the post of duty which taxes us to the uttermost; and because he had done all this, he is responsible for all that is needed to accomplish his purposes.  Since all things are of him, we may rest assured that they will be through him and to him forever.  He has made and he will bear.  He has incurred the responsibility of making us what we are, and placing us where we are, then he must perfect that which concerns us, since his mercy endureth forever and he cannot forsake the work of his own hands.

1 Corinthians 1:4-9
Philippians 1:3-6
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
2 Thessalonians 3:1-5
Hebrews 10:22-23
Revelation 1:4-7
1 Corinthians 10:13
Deuteronomy 7:9-11
Psalm 89
Lamentations 3:22-26