God is Faithful
Picture this: you’re standing in a church during worship, or at home in your online version of church, and you sing the words, “God is faithful.” Something moves in you because you’re in the middle of a situation that needs that assurance. And in your soul, if not out of your mouth, you affirm with an, “Amen.”
“God is faithful”. True. But faithful to what?
What does that mean when the job you’ve been interviewing for and wanting desperately goes to someone else? While waiting, preparing, interviewing and wanting the job (as nonchalant as you may have appeared among family and friends), holding onto “God is faithful” may mean hope, even belief, you’ll get that job. And maybe the job comes.
But maybe not. Is God still faithful? God is. But not in the way you’d thought He’d be.
In case you think I’m cynical because of my recent experience in our family, I’m not. I’m hurt. I’m angry. But I’m fairly clear minded:
“But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?” Romans 9:20, 21.
I don’t want you to shake your fist at, close down or walk away from God because your idea of “faithful” didn’t match your preferred outcome. God is faithful. But let’s remove our soft-coated idea of what that means.
God is faithful whether or not you got the job.
God is faithful to what is good and right and to what will expand His reign (putting wrong things right).
God is faithful to being with us in it all and to transforming us through it all into the glory of the Son He loves.
God is faithful to His perfect vision and will that are far above our ways.
God is faithful in holding and keeping and strengthening you and your children, for this life and straight into the next.
That’s what we can count on. God. We put our hope and faith in a Someone, not in an outcome.
I’m real because God is so real. ~ Nancy