Knowing God: Experience & Love Him

The Faithfulness of God

Confident He will help me where and when I need it.

Rev. Paul J. Bucknell

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Knowing God Series Index

Series Introduction| Knowing God | The Revelatory God | Goodness of God | Holiness of God | Power of God | Omnipresent God | Exalted God | Faithfuness of God | Wisdom of God | Mercy of God |Wrath of God | Love of God | Sovereignty of God | Providence of God

The Faithfulness of God is part of the series on Knowing God: Experience and Love Him. Many people have a problem with consistency. God does not. What He says, He certainly carries out. God is faithful! Always.

Reflection question: Share one area that you have personally seen God’s faithfulness.

Growing in our Relationship with God

Understanding God’s attributes are crucial to possessing a strong Christian life. God’s faithfulness helps us maintain a growing trust in God. If we believe God is faithful, then we will trust Him, even during the problems that occur during our Christian development.

Understanding all of God’s attributes are crucial to a strong Christian life, but a strong grasp of God’s faithfulness goes a long way to develop the important trust in our relationship with God. If we believe God is faithful, then we will trust Him. With this confidence, our trust is adequate to support a good and growing relationship with God even when problems occur.

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Understanding God’s Faithfulness

The theme of God’s faithfulness is deeply rooted in various parts of the Bible, not only in the images provided but even in the frequency of its mention.

God claims that He is ultimately faithful.

Other words for faithful are truth, firmness, fidelity, steadfastness, steadiness.

“The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice...” (De 32:4).1

“O LORD God of hosts, who is like Thee, O mighty LORD? Thy faithfulness also surrounds Thee” (Ps 89:8).

“And My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him, and in My name his horn will be exalted” (Ps 89:24).

Biblical analysis

The Hebrew word for ‘faithfulness’ is ‘Amen’, depicting certainty, also meaning truth. It’s root verb means to confirm, support or uphold (TWOT#116). This support can refer to the steady hands of a parent who carry his child.

As a God of revelation, we are totally dependent on the words and pictures that He reveals to us. They are totally reliable and therefore depict truth.

Our Expected Response

We are expected to respond to His faithfulness. Because He has revealed Himself, then we ought to trust Him and respond to what He has revealed as trustworthy. Though the world is confused by what it sees, we can live by our trust in what He has said about Him and this world.



Our lives are to be shaped by this trust in Him. “Trust in the LORD, and do good; Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness” (Ps 37:3). We become faithful by being shaped by what is true and real. “...The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness” (Galatians 5:22).

“O LORD God of hosts, who is like Thee, O mighty LORD? Thy faithfulness also surrounds Thee” (Ps 89:8).

“And My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with him, And in My name his horn will be exalted” (Ps 89:24).

“For the LORD is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting, And His faithfulness to all generations” (Ps 100:5).

“He will cover you with His pinions, And under His wings you may seek refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark” (Psalm 91:4).

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