Loyalty? Or faithful?

In talking about faithfulness, we begin with the faithfulness of God as we heard in Psalm 57, which was the Call to Worship. God has and shows “true and constant support or loyalty;” God is “deserving of trust.”

We are motivated to be faithful and able to be faithful because God is faithful.

God shows us what faithfulness is like, Jesus says God (Matthew 5:45), “makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.”

Paul says in Romans 1:20, “Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made.”

God has been faithful to us in giving us life and sustaining us each day.

What about us? Let’s start with the negative: few things in life are as heartbreaking as unfaithfulness in a relationship. When someone is unfaithful in a marriage, in a family, in a friendship, as an employer or employee, as a citizen of a country, it’s very painful and the damage can be widespread and long lasting.

It’s devastating for any relationship when a person fails to honor his or her commitments.

It takes repentance, hard work, a determination to change, forgiveness, and grace to overcome unfaithfulness in a relationship, but it can be done, if, and only if, both parties are willing to do the hard work to repair the damage that’s been done.

However, often unfaithfulness is so devastating that trust, respect and intimacy cannot be repaired or rebuilt. That’s why remembering Proverbs 3:3-4 is so important