The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"Faithful and True"
"No one has ever trusted in the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and been disappointed for doing so. And no one ever will."
Solomon could not have commanded that we "trust the Lord with all thine heart" were it not for God's perfectly trustworthy heart (Proverbs 3:5-6; emphasis added).
"God cannot lie… Great is Thy faithfulness" (Titus 1:2; Lamentation 3:23).
No one has ever trusted in the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and been disappointed for doing so. And no one ever will. "He that believeth on Him shall not be confounded" (I Peter 2:6). Certainly, we will not always understand God's ways that ever flow with the current of His integrity. Divine faithfulness includes difficult crosses no less than pleasant blessings in our present existence. "We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God" (Acts 14:22). A perfectly faithful Father, while doubtless taking no pleasure in His children's pains, always acts in accordance with our best interests. Thus, He administers or allows both blessings and difficulties as the expression of a perfectly faithful Heart devoted to the glory of the Lord Jesus, and to our being conformed to His spiritual and moral image.
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren" (Romans 8:28-29).
Someone exists who can be trusted with all our hearts not only because He will not lie, but because "He cannot lie." This includes the present moment, along with our Father's purpose regarding the occurrences of the past and the future. God can only be who He is, and He can only act in accordance with a character of pristinely perfect honor and rectitude. Thus, we can cast the confidence of "all thine heart" completely on the Heart who fulfills every word and keeps every promise we find in the Scriptures. "Thou art holy… Thy Word is truth" (Psalm 22:3; John 17:17). We view the past, anticipate the future, and open our eyes in the present moment to behold the God who so purely exists in Truth and as Truth that "in Him is no darkness at all" (I John 1:5). Let us therefore plant it deeply within our spirits, write it on every page of our minds, and speak it with our lips upon every opportunity: No one has ever trusted in the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and been disappointed for doing so. And no one ever will.
"And I saw Heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True."
(Revelation 19:11)
Weekly Memory Verse
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man.
(James 1:13)
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