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God is faithful…but why?

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1 Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

I have been a Christian now for just over ten years. I can tell you that today I am more amazed by God’s own faithfulness than ever before. It has a bit of an accumulative affect I guess, in terms of how I am impressed by this. See because I live with myself, I can see my own sin, albeit finitely, and I can understand to an extant my own idolatry. However, God is infinite, and he sees without limit and knows without limit my own shortcomings. But every single day he is faithful to me and this faithfulness never wavers. So in light of my own unfaithfulness I marvel to consider God’s faithfulness, even unto me.

So think with me as to why and how God is faithful even when we are not.

His Character is faithfulness

In this passage in 1 Corinthians we see that God is faithful. Faithful is an adjective accurately representing an abiding description of the Almighty. Our God is trustworthy, reliable, dependable and sure. It is who God is.

The Scripture is replete with examples of God being a God who is worthy of our trust. This glorious description of our God should ignite our hearts with gladness and praise towards our God who is trustworthy.

But why would he be so faithful to me or to you? Is it because of who we are? Do we commend ourselves to God as a meritorious?

Christ is the means of applying faithfulness

Even in this passage of 1 Corinthians we see that God’s own faithfulness as expressed towards believers is expressed in terms of our union with Jesus.

Doesn’t this magnify the Savior?

So as I sit and scratch my head, marveling at God’s faithfulness to me, I should not fall into the heretical theological posture that attributes this divine favor to me as something that I warrant. Instead, I am to sit and marvel and with watery eyes thank my God in Jesus Christ that he has been pleased to call me into the fellowship of his Son. God is faithful unto me through the gospel of his blessed Son.

It is here in my union with Jesus that I experience divine faithfulness. You may rightly say that God is faithful to us in Christ and in Christ God is faithful to us. There is no basis for divine faithfulness to you or me apart from Jesus. This is why all of those passages in the NT where we are labeled as “in Christ” are so glorious. God is loving us in his Son.

As I sit and marvel at divine faithfulness I am graciously driven to the cross to see my Savior lovingly purchase peace, mercy, and faithfulness for a sinner like me. And it is here that I worship with joy inexpressible.

So join me today in magnifying God’s faithfulness to his people through his Son, the Lord Jesus. Thank him for his faithfulness to you in Christ and labor to be more faithful to him.

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