Trusting God’s Faithfulness

“Faithful lives where love is stronger than instinct.”              

Paul Carvel

As Pastor Jared explained this past Sunday, we live in a “choosing” culture… a consumer society. As a result, we are quick to “cancel” anything that does not fit our liking, our wants, and our desires. One disagreement or one bad experience and we simply walk away.

Jared shared that the opposite is a “Covenant” culture, where faithfulness rules. The Hebrew word Jared used was Hesed, which refers to God’s steadfast love. Scholar Adam Clarke defined it this way: Hesed expresses both God’s loyalty to His covenant and His love for His people along with a faithfulness to keep His promises.

It is to that type of faithfulness that God calls us. It is not something we can do on our own, but is possible when, as Jared put it so well, “Christ dismantles our self-righteousness and self-centeredness, puts us in our rightful place and gives us a supernatural heart.”

The Apostle Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 5:17,

“This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!”

(NLT)

We are no longer under the control of our old self-centered and self-righteous nature, but are a new creation in Christ, where “faith and love are stronger than instinct.”

When you reach the point where everything in you is telling you to quit, trust God's faithfulness and say to yourself, "God, I am going to stick it out, believing in your power to carry me through this, and ultimately coming out the other side even stronger than I went in."

Pastor Ken

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