The Father's Faithfulness

Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassion fall not... Great is Your faithfulness. - Lamentations 3:22-23


Hudson Taylor, the humble servant of God to China, demonstrated extraordinary trust in God's faithfulness. In his journal he wrote:

"Our heavenly Father is a very experienced One. He knows very well that His children wake up with a good appetite every morning... He sustained 3 million Israelites in the wilderness for 40 years. We do not expect He will send 3 milion missionaries to China; but if He did, He would have ample means to sustain them all... Depend on it, God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply."

We may be faint and weary, but our heavenly Father is all-powerful. Our feelings may fluctuate, but He is unchangeable. Even creation itself is a record of His steadfastness. That's why we can sing these words from a hymn by Thomas Chisholm: "Summer and winter, and sringtime and harvest, sun, moon, and stars in their courses above join wiht all nature in manifold witness to Thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love."

What an encouragement to live for Him! Our strength for the present and hope for the future are not based on the stability of our own perseverance but on the fidelity of God. No matter what our need, we can count on the Father's faithfulness. - Paul Van Gorder


Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided -
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me! - Chisholm

He who abandons himself to God will never be abandoned by God.

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Psalm 107:1-16

Give thanks to Yahweh, For he is good, For his loving kindness endures forever. Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, Whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, And gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and form the south.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in. Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them. Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, And he delivered them out of their distresses, He led them also by a straight way, That they might go to a city to live in.

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, For his wonderful works to the children of men! For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good. Some eat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron, Because they rebelled against the words of God, And condemned the counsel of the Most High.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help. Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, And he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And broke their bonds in sunder.

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, For his wonderful works to the children of men! For the he has broken the gates of brass, And cut through bars of iron.

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Be faithful of His loving kindness... for no one else could do something like what He did... He is the One...