God is Faithful

I'll spare you the minute details, but my family is battling food allergies and weird side-aspects of those allergies.  It is frustrating to try to educate doctors, pharmacists, drug companies, restaurants, and so on as to particulars, without them thinking you are crazy, hyper-reactive, super-sensitive, etc.  Day-to-day stuff gets tiring, especially when you are dealing with children.  I think I speak on behalf of all parents when I say that we'd rather endure the issue instead of seeing our kids have to.

You start to wonder what else you are supposed to do.  Maybe you missed something, or maybe there's something else to look up, another phone call to make, someone else to reach out to that might listen and miraculously even understand.  Life can just get overwhelming like that, and threaten to disrupt perspective and priorities.

So I glance over at a binder on my desk, which is where I keep teaching materials, and gracing the cover is a copy of the title of the latest series of my studies, in big, bold print, GOD IS FAITHFUL!

"God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord."
1 Cor. 1:9

To be honest, maybe I was beginning to forget that.  I mean, I KNOW He is faithful, but it's so easy to live as though I have forgotten that.  Knowing and doing are two separate disciplines.  Both are crucial and one without the other is reckless, either way.

Then that peace, that joy that only comes from the Father through Christ, filled me and left me refreshed knowing that there is much to learn from this trial, as there is with any other trial.  So will we trust God with this situation, still seeking His wisdom as we have to make decisions?  That's kind of the idea God has with the situation, I'm reasonably sure.  No, I'm 100% confident in that.

So maybe you've been struggling through something, and you just can't figure it all out.  Maybe you wonder if there is anyone anywhere who knows the answer to what you are asking.  Let me re-introduce you to the Creator.  Oh, I know you know He's there, and I'm sure you know He's in control, and if you are anything like me, maybe you just need a reminder of His faithfulness.

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Holding Fast to the Name of our Creator