Faithfulness

Its a little word but it encompasses something so much bigger than ourselves. What does it really mean to bean faithful? I am sure that all of us have seen unfaithfulness in our lives. And it comes from all sorts and most likely every person we have ever known or will ever know will fail us. Not intentionally to be sure, but it still happens.

And it creates a framework for being disappointed and even expecting people to fail us. And while true how sad it is to walk around with the mindset that people will fail us and so we never try to trust. And as a result we have a hard tim trusting Him. Because we continually project what we see on this earth onto who God is. But that is the biggest fallacy ever created. We cant project onto God.

God is. Period. That is the end of the statement. It doesnt need defined because it cant be defined, at least not in human terms, because He is not human. But that is how we continually look Him. We seem to project our own image of God. It is like covering a chair with a blanket and still thinking that we see a chair. But we dont we are essentially covering up the chair and so we never really see it for what it is.

What if we stopped projecting what we see in this world onto God and started seeing God for who He really is? What might happen in our lives? I think that we would start to see the changes that we long to see in our lives and the lives around us. God will never be totally revealed in this life and indeed we will spend eternity getting to know Him, but we can take steps today that will launch us into knowing Him for who He really is. And the best part is that no one else can completely define who He is to you. Only He can define who He is to you. Others cant tell you because He must be experienced by each and every one of us individually.

We each get to experience different parts of who He is and He is unique to each of us because we each have our own experiences with Him but at the same time He is the same for each of us. He is faithful! The basic point of this whole piece is that He is faithful, but we just have to choose to see that and trust completely independent of anything the world has shown us.

His faithfulness to me means that no matter what He is there! It is not dependent on the situation or the people involved or the powers that be. His faithfulness is the one true thing in a world filled with fallacies and half-truths. It is the one thing that never changes depending on emotion or will. It is the one thing that always say yes to loving me.

What does His faithfulness mean to you?