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Only Jesus - Faithful One

 Have you ever had the experience of having a promise made to you only to find that it was not kept. Maybe you made a promise to someone and although you tried to keep it to the best of your ability circumstances didn’t cooperate and you ended up disappointing people. Either way promises are meant to be kept and as Humans, try as we might, we tend to fail in our commitments. On the other hand, God, the maker of heaven and earth, our Heavenly father, keeps His word come what may. To better understand Jesus as the Faithful one we must look closer at His father who is the source of any and all faithfulness.  The Hebrew word for faithful is “emunah” - steadfast, unchanging, firm. If there is any trait of God that sets him apart from every other worshiped deity-its faithfulness.

He is faithful to His word. He is faithful to His people. He is faithful to those who choose to follow Him. That’s who our God is.

If you doubt God’s faithfulness- look around you and at yourself. It’s his faithfulness that keeps us from perishing. 

The passage for today’s reading describes the transfiguration of Jesus. This act played a vital role in the led up to Jesus’ death and resurrection because it is proof of Jesus’ identity, Jesus’ fulfillment of the Law and prophets and God’s faithfulness to His Word.

When we look at the Biblical narrative from Genesis to Malachi we find there is a repetitive cycle.  A cycle of - A Faithful God giving his people commandments to live by, unfaithful people who rebel against God, self inflicted repercussions, suffering, crying out in repentance, God responding in mercy and causing restoration of His people. In the midst of man’s inconsistency and sinfulness God stayed faithful. The Bible through the old testament has close to 55 prophecies about Jesus. About his life, his birth, his youth, his work, his kingdom and so on. The astonishing thing is that in Jesus not one or two of these but all of these were fulfilled. Our father God is a promise keeper in every sense of the word. He promised to send the Messiah and he didn’t fail us. What’s more is that he sent us His own son to save us and to restore us to Him. Only God could care so deeply about us that he would keep his promise even if it meant sacrificing his one son in exchange for all of humanity to be adopted into His family.

Prayer: Dear Lord, we pray that we will remember your faithfulness in every season of our soul. May we not forget all you have done for us and may be trust you for all that’s ahead. I love you father, for your faithfulness which endures to all generations. In Jesus’ name. Amen.