Mission Venture Ministries

“God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” (1 Corinthians 1:9) 

Depending on God is basic to the Christian life. We trust in, and depend on God for our salvation (Ephesians 2:8-9). We depend on God for wisdom (James 1:5). In fact, we depend on God for everything (Psalm 104:27) and in everything (Proverbs 3:5-6). The psalmist teaches the Lord’s reliability with the three-fold description “the LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer” (Psalm 18:2). 

When we place our trust in Jesus Christ as omnipotent Creator and gracious Redeemer, He then faithfully undertakes to provide everything we need to live an effective, fruitful, victorious Christian life. 

For example, when we are tempted to sin or are tested in any other way, “God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it” (1 Corinthians 10:13). In this sense, He undertakes to ground us firmly in His truth and to keep us from moral and spiritual harm because, “the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one” (2 Thessalonians 3:3). 

And when we do sin, He assures us that “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) because “we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1). 

With all our failings, God has undertaken to eventually perfect us in Christ, and He faithfully will continue this until it is done. “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass” (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24). 

All that He has promised, He will do. Even when we are unfaithful to Him, He remains faithful to us. “If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself” (2 Timothy 2:13). 

God’s faithfulness follows the promise that He will “confirm you to the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 1:8). Therefore, we also need to seek to be faithful by letting “us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful” (Hebrews 10:23). 

Many places in Scripture extol the faithfulness of God. Lamentations 3:22-23 says, “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” 

The Hebrew word translated “faithfulness” means “steadfastness, firmness, fidelity.” Psalm 119:89-90 says, “Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. Your faithfulness continues through all generations.” 

When we know Him, we can rest in His goodness, even when we don’t understand the circumstances that God’s plan for us will prevail, “There are many plans in a man’s heart, nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand” (Proverbs 19:21). 

As a child trusts a loving father, we can trust our heavenly Father to always do what is right. Therefore, we need to listen to Him and obey the leadership of the Holy Spirit in us because when we trust and obey we have the assurance that He will lead us as Proverbs 3:5-6 states: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” 

Always remember that: “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord” (Jeremiah 17:7).

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