God Is Always Faithful!
"If we are faithless,
He remains faithful;
He cannot deny Himself."
2 Timothy 3:13
Perhaps the most challenging idea in biblical
Christianity for the new believer to grasp is the
dual concept of God’s grace and mercy.
The
ideas that God always loves us and always
forgives us are hard to embrace at first.
The grace of God means He blesses us
when
we don’t deserve it, and the mercy of God means
He doesn’t punish us when we do deserve it. The
mercy of God is a big theme in the Old Testament.
The phrase, “His mercy endures forever,” occurs
41 times—26 times in Psalm 136
alone.
God’s grace and mercy are reflections of His
character, specifically His faithfulness as it is
impossible for God to be unfaithful. When we
are unfaithful, “He remains faithful; He cannot
deny Himself.”
God can never be ungracious or unmerciful. His
grace and mercy flow always from His character,
regardless of our behavior. There is nothing we
can do to earn God’s faithfulness, nor anything
we can do to lose it (Ephesians 2:8-9).
The next time you are less than faithful, don’t
doubt God’s love or forgiveness. He has made
you the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus
(2 Corinthians 5:21).
"Measure your growth in grace
by your sensitiveness to
sin."
Oswald Chambers