OUR FAITH IS ANCHORED IN THE GREAT FAITHFULNESS OF OUR GOD WHO IS UNCHANGING & UNCHANGEABLE

Happy & Blessed New Year 2022!

The Rock of our Foundation is not in us but in the Unchanging and unchangeable Great Faithfulness of Our Loving Father

In very early days two Christian songs anchored us in God’s faithfulness

  1. LIKE A RIVER GLORIOUS
  2.  GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS

This is the Day to Rest our Faith in Our Loving Father

First look at the hymn “Like A River Glorious”

1)Like a river glorious is God’s perfect peace
Over all victorious in its bright increase
Perfect, yet it floweth fuller every day
Perfect, yet it groweth deeper all the way
Chorus:
Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blest
Finding as He promised
Perfect peace and rest
2)Hidden in the hollow of His blessed hand
Never foe can follow, never traitor stand
Not a surge of worry, not a shade of care
Not a blast of hurry touch the spirit there
3)Every joy or trial falleth from above
Traced upon our dial by the Sun of Love
We may trust Him fully all for us to do
They who trust Him wholly find Him wholly true
By Frances Ridley Havergal
The 3rd Stanza says
Every joy or trial falleth from above
Traced upon our dial by the Sun of Love
We may trust Him fully all for us to do
They who trust Him wholly find Him wholly true
Nothing in life comes to us by accident. They all come by appointments
It says, “Every joy or trial falleth from above”
Why?
Read again, “Traced upon our dial by the Sun of Love”
In ancient times before the clock was invented the Sun dial is used to indicate time
It is from the rotation of the earth around the Sun. Later the clock is invented to follow the Sun dial.
So every event of our lives are pre-planned by God from above. And we MUST TRUST HIM WHOLLY NO MATTER COME WHAT MAY
Because Our God is ALL KNOWING and even the hairs of our head He knows the exact number

 “Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.” (Luke 12:6 & 7)

Can God be Trusted?

The Answer is in His Great Faithfulness

We come to the 2nd Hymn

Great Is Thy Faithfulness

By Thomas Chisholm
1)Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me
2)Summer and winter and springtime and harvest
Sun, moon and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me
3)Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow
Blessings all mine with 10, 000 beside
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed Thy hand hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me
Read these words carefully
Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not
As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be
Every time i sing or read these words tears will welled up in my eyes
Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
THERE IS NO SHADOW OF TURNING WITH THEE
Oh God, My Faithful God! Thou Art the Same Yesterday, Today & For Ever
Truth unchanged. Unchanging in all Thy Faithfulness
The Shadow on the Sun Dial might constantly change but not the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
God’s Word says,

 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.” James 1:17 & 18)

If we live in the light as He is in the Father of Lights We can Trust Him Wholly & Find Him Wholly True.

Amen & Amen!

In all our changing ways of life. In all the vicissitudes of life Our God has no variableness

variation
/vɛːrɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/

a change or slight difference in condition, amount, or level, typically within certain limits.

neither shadow of turning
Sundial Pictures, Sundial Stock Photos & Images | Depositphotos®
Above is an image of a Sun dial. The shadow will move according to the rotation of the earth
God’s promise to us is
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:” (Philippians 1:6)
Amen & Amen!

 “It is of the Lord‘s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. (Lam. 3: 23 & 24)

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