The In Touch Daily Devotional. Now available in easy to read large print. Order yours today. male announcer: “In Touch,” the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. Next on “In Touch,” “The Reassuring Quality of Faithfulness.” Dr. Charles Stanley: Faithfulness is one of the most important qualities to be found in our life.
And when you think about what that involves, sometimes we have believed in people and had faith in them, and they’ve disappointed us. They tell us one thing and do something differently. And then there are people who go through very difficult times in life, hard times. They’re betrayed oftentimes or left with big debts or whatever it might be because of somebody’s unfaithfulness, lack of faithfulness.
And so it’s a very important quality, and I would ask you, would you be–would you fit the category of somebody who’s faithful? When you say you’ll do something, you do it? When you say who you are, that’s who you really are, or do you take that lightly? God doesn’t take it lightly. So I want to title this message, “The Reassuring Quality of Faithfulness.
” And when I think about that, I think about this passage in Genesis in the 32nd chapter, so just listen to it a moment. In verse 9: “Jacob said, ‘O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, “Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you.” I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant.
‘” And just his way of expressing his gratitude to an Almighty God. Would you say that you’re a grateful person– that you look around in your life and you see how faithful God has been and that you are grateful, and that you are grateful because of His faithfulness to you? So throughout scripture there’s a whole bunch of verses about His faithfulness, and I’d just like to read through a few of them, just to remind you how important it is.
In Deuteronomy chapter 7, verse 9, listen. “Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God.” One of His attributes is if He says He’ll do something, He’ll do it. In Psalm 33, verse 4: “For the word of the LORD is upright, And all His work is done in faithfulness.” He does what He says He’ll do, faithful to His promises.
Psalm 36, verse 5: “Your lovingkindness, O LORD, extends to the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.” Psalm 119:90: “His faithfulness continues throughout all generations.” In Lamentations 3:23: “Great is Your faithfulness.” Then, of course, and when I think about that, I think about 2 Timothy 2:13.
