"Nor Will I Ever Betray My Faithfulness"

"I will maintain My love to him forever, and My covenant with him will never fail....If his sons forsake My law.., I will punish their sin.., but I will not take My love from him, nor will I ever betray My faithfulness.  I will not violate My covenant or alter what My lips have uttered."  (Psalm 89)

"I will maintain My love to him forever, and My covenant with him will never fail."  How is this for a "Word from the Lord" to us today?

Now the Living Triune God warned that if David's descendants sinned against Him, "I will punish their sin...."  Yet, even so, Jesus reaffirmed that, "I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray My faithfulness."  As 2 Timothy 2 declares, "If we are faithless, He remains faithful, He cannot disown Himself."  One translation says, "He can't be anything else than what He Is."

Again, I come back to the banks on the river of life.  There always has been chaos in that river, but the, "faithfulness," of Jesus has been always those banks.  You and I have been tossed to and fro throughout in the river of life, and many times it seemed as though chaos ruled.  But those, "Everlasting Arms," have been always around us, keeping us, sustaining us, guiding us.

Sometimes the chaos in our lives has been so severe and deep, it has been like Paul in the storm-tossed ship of Acts 27, "Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was assailing us, from then on all hope of our being saved was gradually abandoned."  I pray today that you and I never come to the place in life of, "was gradually abandoned." 

I know not what to further write, just the wonderful Words of Jesus, "....I will not take My love from him (you), nor will I ever betray My faithfulness.  I will not violate My covenant or alter what My lips have uttered."  I have probably not done much justice to our text, yet I can tell you that our text has done much "justice," much strengthening and encouraging in me today.

Father, in Jesus' Name, "Great is Your Faithfulness."  Amen.

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When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2