The Faithfulness of God

I stand amazed and in awe of God once again.  He is such a faithful and mighty God!  He is not quick to answer many times the cries of our heart because He know Oh too well the fruit that will be produced in and through us as we endure hardships.  He knows all too well what He is doing and He is very systematic in His approach that to our feeble minds seems so disjointed and haphazard.  His timing is impeccable and He will never give us more than we can handle.

James 1
2 eCount it all joy, my brothers,2 when you meet trials fof various kinds, 3 for you know that gthe testing of your faith hproduces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be iperfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Beloved, His purpose behind his perceived delay is perfection!  Count is ALL joy!  He is perfecting that which is His own.  You are not your own!

I Peter 2

9 But you are za chosen race, aa royal bpriesthood, ca holy nation, da people for his own possession (KJV reads peculiar), that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you eout of darkness into fhis marvelous light. 10 gOnce you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

11 Beloved, I urge you has sojourners and exiles ito abstain from the passions of the flesh, jwhich wage war against your soul. 12 kKeep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, lthey may see your good deeds and glorify God on mthe day of visitation.

We are exhorted in Titus 2 to Declare these things!  

11 For hthe grace of God ihas appeared, bringing salvation jfor all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and kworldly passions, and lto live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in mthe present age, 13 nwaiting for our blessed ohope, the pappearing of the glory of our great qGod and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 rwho gave himself for us to sredeem us from all lawlessness and tto purify for himself ta people for his own possession who are uzealous for good works.

15 Declare these things; exhort and vrebuke with all authority. wLet no one disregard you.

Be encouraged today that the Lord is faithful to those who are faithful to Him and His ways.  

Psalm 145:13  

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,

and your dominion endures throughout all generations.

[The Lord is faithful in all his words

and kind in all his works.]1

• Isaiah 25:1  

  O Lord, you are my God;
  I will exalt you; I will praise your name,
  for you have done wonderful things,
  plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
  
  
  Be confident in the Lord today as His plans for you have been formed long ago and they are nothing but faithful and sure!  
  
  
  I watched a elderly man baptized yesterday at church and I listened as the pastor spent 15 minutes explaining how his wife had been a picture of faithfulness in her comittment to the Lord and the body of Christ.  I stood sobbing as I remembered how the Lord broke through to my husband and I was so thankful that we were afforded a life time of raising our sons in the nurture and admonition of the Lord but my tears were also for the man being baptized.  Tears of joy that he was still able to stand and declare before the people his salvation through Jesus Christ.  What a day of rejoicing and years of perceived delay has developed such strength for this woman and her husband in the latter years of their lives! 
  
  Praise God for His faithfulness and how he is perfecting you!  For when His work is complete you will be as pure gold before you maker and what a beautiful treasure to lay before your king!  He is so worth any amount of suffering we might endure on earth as we will live eternally and the things that we receive from Him here on earth for our faithfulness will never fade away,  He is so faithful!