These next
attributes are the ones we can hold on to when the times get tough. God is
always there for us, He will never leave us nor forsake us, and He will help us
make it through.
August’s Awakening, Day 30
Faithfulness.
God always proves Himself to be true and He keeps all His promises. God is
trustworthy, reliable, and always has our best interest at heart.
God
is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his
mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? Numbers
23:19 NIV
I
will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you have established your
faithfulness in heaven itself. Psalm 89:2 NIV
The
one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it. 1
Thessalonians 5:24 NIV
Genuineness.
God is real and true, and although invisible, He makes Himself known in a
myriad of ways. His desire is for us to be strongly connected to Him and
basking in His presence.
No
one is like you, Lord; you are great, and your name is mighty in power. Who should
not fear you, King of the nations? This is your due. Among all the wise leaders
of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you. But the
Lord is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry,
the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath. Jeremiah
10:6–7, 10 NIV
Freedom. God is independent of all His
created beings—humanity, angels, and all creatures. He is not obligated to any
of His created beings, nor responsible for, nor the caretaker of them. Yet He
chooses to interact and commune intimately with humanity, especially, as we
were created in His image, for His good purpose, and He desires to commune and
be in relationship with us.
Our
God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him. Psalm 115:3
NIV
Life.
God is life and is the ultimate and only source of all life. All are His.
God created humanity as spirit beings that are unable to be extinguished, as
nothing is more precious than life. We must choose before our last breath where
we will spend eternity—choosing Christ and paradise, or rejecting Christ and
residing forevermore in the lake of fire.
Then
the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Genesis 2:7
NIV
For
as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life
in himself. John 5:26 NIV
The
Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to
you—they are full of the Spirit and life. John 6:63 NIV
But
small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find
it. Matthew 7:14 NIV
The world may let you down and
family and friends may let you down, but God will always be there for you—no
matter how far you may be from Him, no matter how far you may have strayed, no
matter what you have done—God is faithful and true and all His promises are for
you.
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