You can count on God

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.        Lamentations 3:22-23

“You can’t be sure of anything except death and taxes,” goes the popular aphorism, but that is not really true. You can count on God!

First, three times the Bible says that God will keep His covenant or his promise of love to a thousand generations. As Moses reviewed what God had promised, He told Israel, “Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands” (Deuteronomy 7:9).

Notice that Moses begins with a reassuring premise: God is God! He needs no qualification. He is not God only when there are no storms and no world conflicts. He is God who presides over the rise and fall of nations, the flow of history, and the passing of centuries – a good reminder as we face an unknown future.

He also says that this God is a faithful God. Jeremiah lived in a time of great international turmoil. With Babylon pounding on the door and Jerusalem about to fall, Jeremiah wrote, “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” (Lamentations 3:22-23).

Called a traitor, Jeremiah was renounced by his king and government. Thrown in a slime pit and left to die, his life was saved by a kind eunuch in the court who risked his neck to save him. Yet even after undergoing such difficulties, Jeremiah contends that faithful is the God Almighty.

You can prove for yourself that God is faithful and will honor His word. Trust Him and walk with Him.

I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil – this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him. Ecclesiastes 3:10-14