God’s Ultimate Yes

As I look back over the 2018 I can only come to one conclusion: God is faithful.

Yes, I had various trials that made me doubt this fact at times.

I had days that I simply just wasn’t feeling it. Days that I was down, discontent and wondering if God had forgotten me.

It was a year that brought changes and adjustments that I didn’t necessarily want or approve. Things that didn’t fit into my plan. It was year of doubting some choices that I made.

But looking back in hindsight I can now see that those various trials tested my faith which produced more patience in me. (James 1:2-8) and I count it all joy.

On those days that I was down I had to remember what David said to his soul in Psalm 42:5 when he felt this way, ”Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad?

I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again—my Savior and my God!” David had to remind himself to place his hope in the only true hope and it is a good reminder for me too.

I had had to remember that my plans are not my own. I needed to trust in God and not my own understanding. Proverbs 3:5-6

I look at all of the blessing that 2018 brought me as well as the trials and have to say that God is good and faithful. He is faithful because he saw me through all of those trials and temptations and made me stronger on the other side of them.

No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it. 1 Corinthians 10:13

God isnt like a person who is human and will let me down. He doesn’t break his promises.

Dueteronomy 7:9 says this, “Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments.”

Paul writes this about God’s faithfulness through his son Jesus in 2 Corinthians 1:18-20, “As surely as God is faithful, our word to you does not waver between "Yes" and "No."For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, does not waver between "Yes" and "No." He is the one whom Silas, Timothy, and I preached to you, and as God's ultimate "Yes," he always does what he says. For all of God's promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding "Yes!" And through Christ, our "Amen" (which means "Yes") ascends to God for his glory.

Did you catch that? Jesus, as God’s ultimate “Yes”, always does what he says! And God fulfilled all of his promises through the sacrifice of his son. God sending his one and only son is the culmination of God’s faithfulnes. It is the climatic high point of all of his faithfulness. It isn’t just the cherry on top of the cupcake, it’s the whole cupcake. I would venture to say all of God’s faithfullness is built upon Jesus’ sacrafice. All of his promises are fulfilled through Christ. How comforting to to know that!

If I can trust God with the ultimate plan to save mankind, can’t I trust him with my day to day life? Can’t I trust him with the plans he has for me?

Can you do the same?

So, looking back over the past year and every year prior I can say, God has been faithful. No matter if things went the way I wanted or not, He has been faithful.

He has been faithful before the world was even formed because the plan of salvation was formed before this world even was (Ephesians 1) and the effects of that plan will continue through eternity to those who are faithful to Him.

As as I look to the new year I pray I can continue to see and say that God is faithful.

I pray that we all can see through God’s ultimate YES of Jesus‘ sacrafice that God is faithful and fulfills all of his promises in 2019 and every year that follows.