Advent Alphabet - "F" - "Faithful"

Advent Alphabet – “F” – “Faithful” December 5, 2015 “Know and understand that the Lord your God, he is God, the faithful God, Who keeps covenant and steadfast love and mercy with those who love him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations” (Duet.7:9). “To this end was I born, and for this cause I have come into the world, to bear witness to the Truth. Everyone who is of the Truth hears and listens to my voice.” (John 18:37) In yesterday’s meditation we saw that one of the attributes of God is that He is forever faithful. When God’s first creation, Adam, “fell” because of his disobedience (Genesis 3), the plan of redemption was already in the heart of God. As a faithful Son and because of His love for His creation (mankind), He saw His role as Redeemer was to begin in a stable, with a poor couple, and a very young mother delivering her baby, who was the faithful One Who came to “save His people from their sins.” Therefore, He must come to earth for people to see Him experience life as a human and remain faithful to His character. His entire life was for the purpose to bear witness to the Truth, and He was a faithful witness. “So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess, for He Who promised is reliable and faithful to His word” (Heb.10:23). When going through testing times, there is a wonderful promise to believers, which is in II Thess.3:3 which says, “The Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and set you on a firm foundation and guard you from the evil one.” God is faithful because that is part of His “divine DNA.” He is faithful because He is faithful. In whatever circumstance believers may find themselves, God will be faithful to work on our behalf. That is why He was born, “to bear witness to the Truth” (John 18:37). “If we are faithless, He remains faithful to His Word and His righteous character, for he cannot deny Himself” (II Timothy 2:13). He promises that “If we freely admit we have sinned and confess our sins, he is faithful and true to His nature to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness (everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action)” (I John 1:9). Throughout God’s Word, He showed Himself to be a faithful witness to the Truth of the gospel. Even in the last book of the Bible, John’s Revelation, when time was no more, he saw the One Who was riding a white horse. He was called, “Faithful and True, and He wages war in righteousness” (Rev.19:11). (Italics from Amplified Bible)