18 Sep The Faithfulness of God

I trust you are having a great week—I just wanted to share a thought with you from a tremendous little book you may have heard of before, but never gotten around to reading: it’s The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer, and it is a little primer on the attributes of God.

This is one of my favorite passages, in which he talks about the Faithfulness of God:

“The faithfulness of God is…sound theology, but to the believer it becomes far more than that: it passes through the processes of the understanding and goes on to become nourishing food for the soul. For the Scriptures not only teach truth, they also show its use for mankind.

The inspired writers were men of like passion with us, dwelling in the midst of life. What they learned about God became to them a sword, a shield, a hammer; it became their life motivation, their good hope and their confident expectation.

Upon God’s faithfulness rests our whole hope of future blessedness. Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come.

The tempted, the anxious, the fearful, the discouraged may all find new hope and good cheer in the knowledge that our Heavenly Father is faithful. He will ever be true to His pledged word. The hard-pressed sons of the covenant may be sure that He will never remove His loving-kindness from them nor suffer His faithfulness to fail.”

And then Tozer closes the chapter with the words from the old Isaac Watts hymn:

Happy the man whose hopes rely
On Israel’s God; He made the sky
      And earth, and seas, with all their train
His truth forever stands secure;
He saves the oppressed, He feeds the poor,
      And none shall find His promise vain.

And all God’s people said…

Amen.

I’ll see you Sunday, as we continue in 1 Peter 1, looking at “The Art of Neighboring.” We’ll continue looking at the incredible and literally other-worldly resources, themes and encouragements the book gives us to help us live compelling lives of sacrificial love.

We’ll also be celebrating a number of water baptisms, in addition to having our next GroupLink after each service—see you then!

Morgan