Faithful

The Lord is faithful to all His promises and loving toward all he has made. Psalm 145:13

Over the past 10 years I have come to understand so much about God's faithfulness. Time and time again in the Bible He makes a promise to a person or nation and is faithful in keeping His Word.

I remember best by word pictures. If I can see the picture in my mind I don't ever forget the principle. Several years ago I was going through a very dark place in my life. The kids were young and we were going to the library that day. There was such a drastic picture for me, right before my very eyes. The previous day I kept asking the Lord where He was in my life, I felt like He had abandoned me and that I was all alone. As we were driving eastbound I was driving in the sunlight.

About five miles in front of me was the blackest sky over the top of the mountains. I have seen that scene many times for often it rains over those mountains but we don't even get a drop of rain less than two miles away. What was most unusual was in front of the blackest sky was one of the most brilliant double rainbows I have ever seen with all of the colors. It wasn't a partial rainbow but you could see the entire rainbow from one end to the other. I have heard people over the years say "Oh, look at that pretty rainbow." From that day on, I have instilled in my children that rainbows are a gift from God to us, a fulfillment of a promise. He was there with me, He had never left!

In Genesis 6 we learn the story of Noah. It says in verse 5 that "The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the Lord said, I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air for I am grieved that I made them. But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord." 

So Noah and his family and 2 of every kind of species floated in a gigantic boat while all of life was wiped off of earth because of man's sinfulness. So after everything was covered in water and they were on dry land God said to Noah and his sons, "I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all of life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth. This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you. I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant."


Look around you, wars and rumors of wars, spouses leaving behind their families for another, murders, robberies, gossip and malice, envy and "keeping up with the Jones"! His tolerance for sin has never changed. It says that the Lord was grieved by all of the sin that He saw man committing. He was even sorry He had ever created man. The Bible says God is the same yesterday, today and forever. So why are we still here? Because back then He made a promise to all of mankind, that He wouldn't wipe us off the planet for the sins we commit.

There are hundreds of promises in Scripture, many if then statements; if you do this, you will reap this blessing, if you don't follow this command, then this consequence will occur. God doesn't change, His Word doesn't change, His faithfulness to us and what He promises doesn't change. It is the only security we have in this lifetime!!!

Do you know His promises well enough to stand on them when life seems uncertain?