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He Who Promised Is Faithful


Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands. (Deuteronomy 7:9) 

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. (Hebrews 10:23) 

            What does it mean that God is faithful? Faithful to whom? Faithful to what? First and foremost, it means that God is faithful to Himself. He does not work at cross purposes with Himself. This sounds obvious, but it is very different from the way we live. We know that we should eat right, exercise, get a good night's sleep, not over-indulge in anything, and not eat, drink, smoke or otherwise take into our bodies things that are harmful to us. The research has shown that the healthiest, wealthiest, more stable sort of family is the traditional family, yet we divorce, we redefine family to mean nothing because it means anything, and we do ourselves and our society harm. Why do we do these things? Often, it is because we aren't loyal to ourselves. We are driven by whims, wishes and feelings. (This is not t say that God does not have feelings, but that His feelings are faithful to Him - they do not rule Him or betray Him the way ours tend to betray us.)
           Because God is faithful to Himself, when He keeps His promises. He does what He says He is going to do unless we change, thus making His action unnecessary. There is a huge blessing to us in this faithfulness. God doesn't decide one day to make apples nutritious, and the next day to make them poisonous. He doesn't promise not to destroy the world with water again during one lifetime, and then destroy it with water in the next. He doesn't devise ten thousand different  means to salvation, changing from one to another without warning. Because He is faithful to Himself, He must be faithful to us. We can exist and function in the universe only because God is faithful to Himself.
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