God is faithful……..

This is something that I earnestly desire to impress upon my children.  They know the bible stories, they know that Jesus loves them, these are very important, but I also want from the bottom of their being for them to understand that God is truly faithful.

We have been studying the Old Testament, Genesis and Exodus to be precise.  We are going over the bible stories to be sure, but more than that, we are going over what God said to His people along the way. 

Every step of the way God made promises. 

He promised Adam and Eve that their “seed” would crush the head of the serpent. 

He promised Noah that He would save his family because Noah walked “blameless” in the sight of God. 

He promised Abraham that he would be Father of many nations and promised him a son and the land of Israel.  Abraham recognized that God would provide for himself a lamb, and was willing to sacrifice his own son if not.  God is faithful, He rewarded Abraham’s obedient heart.  He made a mighty nation from Jacob whom He renamed Israel.  Then after the nation of Israel was preserved (through Joseph) and then enslaved by Egypt, God delivered His children from Egypt through the obedience of Moses. 

We haven’t gotten any further then this yet.  I can’t wait to study Joshua and Gideon and David along the way. 

I want them to get it.  I want them to understand that the WHOLE of the Old Testament is a written account of the faithfulness of God.  It is forever pointing forward, onward, illuminating God’s plan of redemption.  Jesus.  The Old Testament isn’t just a collection of stories put there as examples to us of how to and not to live.  Although they can serve that purpose.  Their real purpose is, above all, to point to Jesus.  His life, His death, His resurrection.  I want my children to understand that we are not living Plan B.  This was the plan from the beginning.  God made us and this planet knowing full well what Adam and Eve were going to do.

God was faithful.  God is faithful.  God will continue to be faithful. 

 

Deu 11:18	Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
Deu 11:19	Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deu 11:20	Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,
Deu 11:21	so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.