Staying faithful

Fidelity (faithfulness) seems to be one of those commodities that is in short supply in our western culture. We see the evidence for this in the myriad of broken promises that lie around us like the shards of a broken mirror.

Couples who once made a promise, before Almighty God, that they would be faithful to one another for as long as they both lived, finding that divorce and remarriage is the world's easier answer than the sheer hard work and, often forgiveness, that would save a marriage that is in difficulty. Bosses who willingly had their employees enter into contractual obligations that did have a certain inbuilt reciprocation, cut and run as the "credit crunch" bites ever more deeply - leaving those same workers with bleak prospects for the new year. Politicians, of whatever political hue, who promise the electorate almost anything in order to secure their privileged positions, and the accompanying perks, and who then quietly forget those whom they are supposed to be serving as they feather their own nests.

Perhaps that's the very reason why so many find the concept of a God Who truly is faithful so difficult to accept - along with angels; a virginal conception; miracles of healing, and over nature; resurrection; and everything else that makes up the Gospel message, it's outwith their knowledge and experience. If everyone else lets me down, why should I trust God?!

Of course, as countless numbers down through the millennia can attest, He is faithful but, as Stuart Pascall reminds us in today's video-message, that same God demands my faithfulness in response.

Only three more sleeps ......!!!