Sunday school 9am and Worship 10:15am
Sunday school 9am and Worship 10:15am
Your faithfulness endures to all generations.
You have established the earth, and it stands fast. Psalm 119:90
So, in this time of preparing for the election and hearing results from presidential primaries, it is easy to forget God’s faithfulness. No, I’m not about to get all political on you, but just think about that. The news persuades us, depending on how we hear it, toward one candidate or another. It helps us form our decisions and further validates or complicates our understanding of the world. Through different events, we even wonder, is God moving, is he working at all, anywhere?
And then we think of bible verses such as these which assure us of God’s faithfulness throughout all time. We are reminded God is going to take care of us and all the earth will feel that sense of peace and blessing. And yet we wonder, how’s that possible given everything I hear, see, and even experience?
Well friends, let me caution us to think about things this way. God never said free will wouldn’t complicate our world. God never said our decision making would lead to ultimate joy right now. God didn’t even say we will be happy with everything which happens now. We are owed and entitled to none of that stuff.
However, God did promise he would be faithful through all time to all people. God did promise he would be there no matter what happens. God said he would never let people fall completely into emptiness and despair with no light, no open door, no way out. Even if we suffer, even if we feel the world, our world coming apart, there’s God helping us somehow pick up the pieces. There’s God somehow helping us survive even if our particular candidate doesn’t get elected. There’s God being faithful even as we continue to hear all the negative stuff on the news. And there’s God being faithful even as we feel an ebbing and changing of the times most definitely not always to our liking.
So friends, let us remember, great is God. Great is his faithfulness. Do you see his mercy every morning, every day? Do you feel his faithfulness even in tough times? in the not-so-great things you hear, in the major questions you’re asking about the world and how we’re going to make it? How great and faithful do you really believe God is?
To God be the glory! Pastor Brandon
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