Faithfulness of God
“Some time ago Denalyn [my wife] was gone for a couple of days and left me alone with the girls. Though the time was not without the typical children’s quarrels and occasional misbehavior. It went fine.
“How were the girls?” Denalyn asked when she got home.
“Good. No problem at all.”
Jenna overheard my response. “We weren’t good, Daddy,” she objected. “We fought once, we didn’t do what you said once. We weren’t good. How can you say we were good?”
Jenna and I had different perceptions of what pleases a father. She thought it depended upon what she did. It didn’t. We think the same about God. We think his love rises and falls with our performance. It doesn’t. I don’t love Jenna for what she does. I love her for whose she is. She is mine.
God loves you for the same reason. He loves you for whose you are, you are his child. It was this love that pursued the Israelites. It was this love that sent the prophets. It was this love which wrapped itself in human flesh and descended the birth canal of Mary. It was this love which walked the hard trails of Galilee and spoke in the hard hearts of the religious.
“This is not normal, Lord GOD.” David exclaimed as he considered God’s love. You are right, David. God’s love is not normal love. It’s not normal to love a murderer and adulterer, but God did when he loved David. It isn’t normal to love a man who takes his eyes off you, but such was God’s love for Solomon. It isn’t normal to love people who love stone idols more than they love you, but God did when he refused to give up on Israel.
(From And the Angels Were Silent by Max Lucado)
2 Kings 13:23
But the LORD was gracious to the people of Israel, and they were not totally destroyed. He pitied them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day he still has not completely destroyed them or banished them from his presence.
Isaiah 42:16
I will lead blind Israel down a new path,
guiding them along an unfamiliar way.
I will make the darkness bright before them
and smooth out the road ahead of them.
Yes, I will indeed do these things;
I will not forsake them.
Hosea 2:19
I will make you my wife forever, showing you righteousness and justice, unfailing love and compassion.
God’s wedding gift to his people, both in Hosea’s day and in our own, is his compassion. Through no merit of our own, God forgives us and makes us right with him. There is no way for us by our own efforts to reach God’s high standards, but he graciously accepts us, forgives us, and draws us into a relationship with himself. In that relationship we have personal and intimate communion with him.
My Ramblings
Do you wonder if God really cares? Do you feel like he has left you to face your problems alone? Trust God to work in your life day by day. Let God be your source of security.
If He is your lover, and you are His child and servant; how can you not trust Him.
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