Psalms 89:1 “I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.”
Today we are going to look into the faithfulness of God, the
Psalmist wrote “…I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.”. God has never failed man nor any other of His
creation. It is man that fails in their faithfulness, even to God. “God
is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should
repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he
not make it good?” Numbers 23:19 Neither can God lie, “In hope of
eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world
began;” Titus 1:2 However, it was this very God who cannot lie that
called all men liars, “God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a
liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and
mightest overcome when thou art judged.” Romans 3:4 Satan is a liar
from the beginning and cannot be trusted. “Ye are of your father the devil,
and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning,
and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
John 8:44 Therefore, it must be concluded that the only one Who can be
trusted is the Infallible God. It is in Lam 3:23 that God’s faithfulness is
called great.
Since God’s faithfulness is great and unfailing, it should
not surprise us that His Son and our Messiah should also have these same attributes
in Himself. In Isaiah, The Messiah is called The Righteous Branch “And
righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle
of his reins.” Isaiah 11:5 We also see the Messiah called “Faithful and
Righteous”, “And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that
sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge
and make war.” Revelation 19:11 God is the only one that must be
trusted as absolute Truth and Faithful. When we are with the Lord in heaven as
God’s children, we will also be faithful and never lie nor not fail our Father.
What a glorious truth, what a glorious time for the believer to look forward
too. “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what
we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him;
for we shall see him as he is.” 1 John 3:2
We are God’s children and as His children we ought to
reflect the faithfulness of God as the light of God reflecting through us. “Let
your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify
your Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 5:16 As God’s children we ought to
be faithful in everything, because our Father is faithful. “O love the LORD,
all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully
rewardeth the proud doer.” Psalms 31:23 Our faithfulness should start to
God, His word, to His church, and to each other, then to the world. “Now
concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as
one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.” 1 Corinthians
7:25
Christian and church leaders should be faithful, “Moreover
it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.” 1
Corinthians 4:2 We are no different than the Christians and Ministers in
the bible, they lived in times as we do and remind faithful. “Then the
presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the
kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was
faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.” Daniel
6:4 and in 2 Timothy 2:2 “And the things that thou hast heard of
me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall
be able to teach others also.”
As Christians it should be out goal in life to be faithful
in all things but especially to God, His word and His church. We are not
perfect in the flesh and we will all fail, but that is not an excuse to fail.
God is mercifully faithful to us in everything, He never lies nor does He ever
fail us, and returning that to Him should be our daily goal.
