God Never Fails

We all have those days, sometimes weeks where we feel like complete failures.  We seem to be making the same mistakes over and over.  Sins and bad habits that we struggled with a year ago, five years ago....still plague our days.  "Will I ever get past this?  Will I ever make progress."   This statements run round and round in our hearts and heads filling us with hopelessness and  helplessness. "Why am I so stiff necked in this area?  Why bother even trying, nothing changes."  Same old, same old!  Being new creations why do we so often act like the wretched old sinners that we were?  Where is that new nature we are supposed to be exhibiting?  I don't know about anyone else, but when I go through this I sure start to lose my faith.  

But God.....

Last week I had a few of those days.  Boy was my heart dragging!  My faith took a nose dive.  My mood was dark and downcast.  And then today came.  And God had an answer.

I was driving home from church and listening to a radio preacher...I believe he was out of the Calvary Chapel in Staten Island, NY, but I cannot remember his name.  Anyway, he brought up some Bible verses that just sent God's comfort to my heart regarding this whole, "I'm never gonna get it" routine that I struggled with this week.  2 Timothy 2:13  If we are unfaithful, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny who He is.  John 10:27-29  My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish.  No one can snatch them away from Me, for my Father has given them to me, and He is more powerful than anyone else.

He is faithful.  God is always faithful.  No matter what we think, do, feel, see....He is faithful.  No one, nothing, not our darkest secrets, our worst moments, our biggest failures or most persistent struggles can separate us from Him, or from His love.  I am so comforted by this fact.  I feel as if I fail so often and am so grateful for His everlasting love.  It's not that we will be perfect.  It's not that we don't fail.  It's not that we don't stumble over the same sins, time and time again. It's that He is faithful to us because that is who He is.  It's about God, not me!  Such love!

I know, like most of you, I will keep trying.  We don't give up, even when the frustrations of sin overwhelm us.  I pray that we will hold on to these verses, and remember what the Bible tells us in Philippians 1:6  And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

Thank You.  That's all I can say.  Thank You Father!!  You are amazing.

Today, let's focus on God instead of ourselves.  Turn from our weaknesses, our failures and our frailties and look only toward His love that envelopes us.  He is faithful.

Romans 8:38-39  And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love.  neither death nor life, either angels nor demons, neither our fears for today, nor our worries about tomorrow--not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.  No power in the sky above or in the earth below--indeed, nothing in all of creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.