When You Wonder if God will Be There

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This Week's Devotion Was Inspired By:

Exodus 34:6

^{^{The Lord passed in front of Moses, calling out,
“Yahweh!The Lord!
The God of compassion and mercy!
I am slow to anger
and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.}}

FROM HEAD KNOWLEDGE TO HEART KNOWLEDGE:

1. Remember with Gratitude: Make a list of times when you can look back and see how God has been faithful to you in the past.

2. Apply to now & the future: Tuck that list in your Bible or somewhere where you can find it easily. When you are struggling to trust the Lord in the future, pull that list out. Thank God for all He has already done in your life, and use it as an anchor that y ou can count on his faithfulness forever.

KEY POINT: God is faithful, and He will keep His promises to us.

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In Hope Renewed, we talked about how we can trust God because of who he is. And we focused on four attributes. We talked about his wisdom, his sovereignty, his loving kindness, and his faithfulness. Which, by the way, if you're struggling with trusting God with, does he care? Is he good? I encourage you to go back to Hope Renewed and go through week one. There's lots of great stuff in there. But today, I want to focus on just thinking about God's faithfulness.

So let's read Exodus 34:6. This is the Lord and Moses. The Lord passed by him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness."

I love this scripture because it's how God describes himself. He says, "I am the Lord, merciful, gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness." And this faithfulness aspect is so important because it means he doesn't abandon us. He doesn't forget about his promises. He doesn't make a promise and then, yeah, something came up and he didn't keep it.

We can count on him and know that when he says, "I will be with you," he will be with you. And there are so many promises then in the Bible that we can cling to. You know, he promises to be with us. He loves us. He will comfort us. He will give us wisdom. All of these we can count on because of his faithfulness.

And it might, you know, in any given moment we might question, God, what is going on? I don't get this. This is hard. But we know that he is there. And we know that one day he will make everything right. In the meantime, we can trust him and count on his faithfulness.

One of the things that can help us remember God's faithfulness or trust in it is remembering how he's been faithful to us in the past. So, my encouragement today is to think about a time in the past where you can look back, and you can see, yes, he was faithful. He did provide. He was there for me. And help that give you strength to know, hey, I can trust him. I can count on his faithfulness for today, for tomorrow, and for anything I'll face in the future.

FROM HEAD KNOWLEDGE TO HEART KNOWLEDGE:

1. Remember with Gratitude: Make a list of times when you can look back and see how God has been faithful to you in the past.