THE FATHER'S FAITHFULNESS

GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS

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THE FATHER’S FAITHFULNESS

READ:  Psalm 107:1-16

Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions

fail not…Great is Your faithfulness.  Lamentations 3:22-23

Hudson Taylor, the humble servant of God to China, demonstrated extraordinary trust in God’s faithfulness.  In his journal he wrote:

“Our heavenly Father is a very experienced One.  He knows very well that His children wake up with a good appetite every morning…He sustained three million Israelites in the wilderness for forty years.  We do not expect He will send three million missionaries to China; but if He did, He would have ample means to sustain them all…Depend on it, God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.”

We may be faint and weary, but our heavenly Father is all-powerful.  Our feelings may fluctuate but He is unchangeable.  Even creation itself is a record of His steadfastness.  That’s why we can sing these words from the hymn “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” by Thomas Chisholm:  “All I have needed Thy hand hath provided.”

What an encouragement to live for Him!  Our strength for the present and hope for the future are not based on the stability of our own perseverance but on the fidelity of God.  No matter what our need, we can count on the Father’s faithfulness.  PVG

He who abandons himself to God will never be abandon by God.