Between the Divine call to salvation and the full achievement of salvation, the Christian needs confidence to watch and stand by, to work and stroll through the obscurity. The stone on which he should fabricate this confidence is God's loyalty.
I. Qualities OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS.
1. God performs what he guarantees. God guarantees in his Word. He guarantees most gravely, and so to speak by vow, in his contracts, for example with Noah, with Abraham, with Moses and Israel, and the new agreement fixed by the blood of Christ. God additionally guarantees by his activities. Regular senses, for example, the intrinsic hunger for light, the longing for eternality, and so forth, are the Creator's guarantees composed on the very being of his animals. God's steadfastness implies that he won't give a false representation of these guarantees.
2. God is consistent with himself. His consistency and changelessness are the grounds of his steadfastness. Since he is consistent with himself he will be consistent with us: "The leniency of the Lord endureth for ever." If we are left to "the uncovenanted kindnesses" of God, these are enormous and sure enough to dissipate all dread.
3. God legitimizes the certainty of his youngsters. Loyalty infers reliability. In the event that we submit our spirits to God with respect to a dedicated Creator, he acknowledges our trust, and in this manner vows his honor not to abandon us.
II. Justification FOR BELIEVING IN GOD'S FAITHFULNESS.
1. Our insight into the idea of God. On the off chance that we have faith in God by any stretch of the imagination, we should put stock in him as good, great, nay, awesome. A feeble and restricted being may change and come up short. God is too incredible to even consider being confidence less.
2. The declaration of the individuals who can best represent God. We judge of an individual's character generally on the proof of the individuals who have the most private associate. Presently we discover prophets and holy people who are closest to God in thought and life best in stating his devotion. Just they who abide in the external courts of his sanctuary, or through and through away from his quality, dare to deny it.
3. The proof managed by the life of Christ. Christ was the incomparable Revealer of the personality of God; and Christ was loyal even to death.
4. The observer of history to the past unwaveringness of God; for example the redemption from Egypt, the get back from the bondage, the appearance of Christ, the presence of Christ in his Church to control and reinforce and favor.
5. The affirmation of individual experience. Many have demonstrated God's unwaveringness in their own personal lives. They can say, "This helpless man cried, and the Lord heard him, and spared him out of the entirety of his' inconveniences."
III. Compulsions TO DOUBT GOD'S FAITHFULNESS.
1. The tired season of pausing. God doesn't satisfy his guarantees when he makes them. Long stretches attempt our confidence. So was it with the Jewish desire for the Messiah; so is it with the Christian desire for the subsequent approach. The heart is nauseated with trust conceded. Yet, this uncertainty is as silly as that of one who, seeing the morning to be long in coming, starts to doubt the guarantee of dawn.
2. Appearances of untrustworthiness. Nothing attempts love so agonizingly as the need of so going about as to incite questions of its own personal steadiness. However the most genuine love won't shrivel from this need when it emerges. God appears to abandon us, or he visits us in reprimand. It is his more noteworthy dedication that drives him so to go about as to cloud our vision of his affection.
3. The surprising satisfaction of Divine guarantees. God doesn't generally satisfy his guarantees in the manner expected by us. At that point we are baffled. Be that as it may, the mistake was in our past fancy, in no change on God's part. Also, the genuine Divine satisfaction, however from the outset less satisfying to us than our desire for it, generally demonstrates over the long haul to be obviously better.
IV. THE RESPONSE WHICH GOD'S FAITHFULNESS SHOULD CALL FORTH FROM US.
1. Worship. The devotion of God is one of the most commendable topics of love.
2. Trust Faithfulness merits certainty, and it supports it.
3. Devotion. In the event that God is dedicated to us, he has a privilege to offer us be loyal. - W.F.A.
