Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Sometimes when life gets tough and circumstances get difficult we sometimes wonder if God really cares about what we are going through.  I am hear to tell you, yes, He does indeed care about what you and I are going through in our lives.  The Lord loves you more than we can even comprehend.  He demonstrated that great love toward us by sending His One and only Son, Jesus Christ to live a perfect sinless life and Jesus laid down His own life by shedding His blood on a cruel rugged cross.  He died for our sins.  For all of us have sinned and all of us are deserving of eternal separation from God in a literal place called Hell. 

The Lord doesn't want anyone to go to Hell.  His desire is that people will repent of their sins and come to trust Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior so they can have forgiveness of their sins through what Jesus did for each of us.  When we trust Him and Him alone we have crossed from death into life.  We will go to Heaven when we die because we have trusted that Jesus paid our sin debt.  There is  no amount of good works that you and I could complete to make us good enough to enter Heaven on our own.  We need a Savior.  We need Jesus.  Jesus Christ is the only One who died for our sins and He is the only way into Heaven and He is the only One who can forgive our sins completely.

I am reminded of His faithfulness to us.  He is an Awesome loving God.  The Lord wants people to come to Him in faith and trust in His grace. 

Lamentations 3:19-26 says,

"I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and gall.
I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed,
for His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is Your faithfulness.

I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for Him."

The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him,
to the one who seeks Him;
it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord."

We have hope in the Lord.  He is faithful to all those who put their faith and trust in Him.
The Lord loves you and remember that He is always with us no matter what we are going through in life.  He will see us through the deepest, darkest valleys.  He will always be by our side.  We can trust Him.  We can say, "Great Is Thy Faithfulness", with confidence. 

I like that old hymn, Great is Thy Faithfulness.  Here is a link to that Hymn.

https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/19
I would encourage you to sing to the Lord and rejoice in His faithfulness.


I am also going to include a link to this past Sunday's Service at the First Baptist Church in Houlton, Maine.  I filled in for my Pastor as he delivered a message at another Church. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ellPwwUt-GM&feature=youtu.be&a


Lord,
We thank You for Your faithfulness toward us.
We praise Your Name.
Thank You Jesus for saving us from sin.
Bless us and draw us nearer to You.
In Jesus name,
Amen.