TRUST A GOD WHO IS FAITHFUL 

            "God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord" (1 Corinthians 1:9). Faithfulness is one of the greatest attributes anyone can have. The Lord does not require us to be richer, smarter, more attractive, or better than others in any way. He only asks that we be faithful in who we are and what we have available to us. When the Spirit was writing 1 Corinthians through the Apostle Paul, after revealing the faithfulness of God in our text, he later revealed the faithfulness God requires of us in chapter 4:2. "Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful". It should be obvious that each of us has failed to always be faithful in our lives, but the Lord will never fail us!

            He has never failed to keep any of the many promises He has made to us in His Scriptures. We often hear of the wisdom and knowledge that existed in Solomon. After building the glorious Temple, he dedicated it with prayer and made this statement about the faithfulness of God. "Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant" (1 Kings 8:56). You may wonder how Solomon could be sure that God had not failed to keep EVERY word of EVERY promise He had made through His servant Moses. These words of Solomon were not his own, but the words the Holy Spirit inspired him to pray that would be included in the infallible Word of God. The Spirit had inspired Moses to write all the promises made in the Pentateuch (the first 5 books of the Bible) and the Spirit knew that all of them that pertained up to the days of Solomon had been fulfilled. One of the greatest promises concerned the nation of Israel that Solomon referenced in his prayer.

            Genesis 12 contains the promise God made to Abraham that a great nation would come forth from him that would bless all the nations of the world. In Genesis 15, God entered into a Covenant relationship with Abraham that guaranteed the fulfillment of the promise previously made. The promise and the covenant are the two immutable (unchangeable) things referenced in Hebrews. "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us" (6:18).   However, the covenant was not made between Abraham and God, but between the Father and the Son and that is why it is called the Covenant of Grace! A man like Abraham may have failed in keeping his part of the Covenant. Therefore, Jesus stood in Abraham's place in making the covenant and He fulfilled the covenant when He died in our place on Calvary. We have confidence in the promise and covenant made by God because we have the complete Word of God and the history of what has been done through the nation of Israel, but Abraham did not have any of that. He only had the promise of God concerning what He would do! Yet, Abraham believed that he would be the father of a seed that would bless the world and be the forerunner of the Savior Who would offer the promise of salvation to all who would believe in Him. Romans 4 is a beautiful chapter that gives the plan of salvation to us based on the experience of Abraham in believing God's promise. "And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform" (verses 19-21). Abraham is the example you should follow in trusting our faithful God! Give glory to God by being strong in your faith!

            God is also faithful to us in providing all He has promised. He will provide salvation to all who call upon Him. "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13). That includes forgiving all our sins! "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9). As Solomon gave us assurance in believing the promises of God, he also gives us confidence in knowing the salvation provided is forever, as he wrote in Ecclesiastes 3:14, "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him."

            Trust all the promises made by our faithful God! There is one precious promise made that is yet to be provided. Jesus promised, "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14:2, 3). Trust our faithful God!