Today it speaks comfort; a year ago it spoke conviction. There's something deeply comforting about knowing that the same God who spoke these words is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God is faithful in every circumstance. My grandmother used to quote this verse every morning. It implies covenant loyalty, steadfast love that never wavers. God is faithful in every circumstance.
God is faithful in every circumstance. This connects directly to the promise made to Abraham. God is faithful in every circumstance.
God is faithful in every circumstance. The imagery here is agricultural - the original audience would have immediately understood the metaphor of sowing, waiting, and harvesting. His timing, His methods, His purposes - all beyond our comprehension, yet perfectly good. The imagery here is agricultural - the original audience would have immediately understood the metaphor of sowing, waiting, and harvesting. I love how this passage doesn't shy away from the difficulty of obedience.
Reading the Psalms alongside this gives a fuller picture of what the author was experiencing - both the anguish and the hope. God is faithful in every circumstance. God is faithful in every circumstance. The early church would have heard this very differently than we do today.
God is faithful in every circumstance. God is faithful in every circumstance. Reading the Psalms alongside this gives a fuller picture of what the author was experiencing - both the anguish and the hope. I think this is a call to trust beyond what we can see. Now I understand why - it's a daily declaration of dependence on God.
Following God is costly, but the reward is eternal. God is faithful in every circumstance. God is faithful in every circumstance. This is one of those passages that reads differently in every season of life. What a reminder that God's ways are not our ways.
God is faithful in every circumstance. God is faithful in every circumstance. God is faithful in every circumstance.
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