The Faithfulness of God
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Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
Does anyone know what today is? It’s January 8, the first friday of a new year, the first chapel of the new year. Now, why do we have a new year? Cause we run out of names for months and we said we’ll start over? Or is it because the earth has made a complete revolution around the sun.
Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149.60 million km, and one complete orbit takes 365.256 days, during which time Earth has traveled 940 million km.
And not only did the earth revolve around the sun this last year, but guess what time it is today?
It’s 8:30 in the morning, another day has started. The South Pole is the other point where Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface, in Antarctica. Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds with respect to other, distant, stars . Earth's rotation is slowing slightly with time; thus, a day was shorter in the past.
And what happened this year, this day is something that God promised to Noah that he would do thousands of years ago. And so for thousands of years, every day, every year, God has been keeping His Word.
Now my point is this. If God has been faithful to do that, what else is God faithful to do? The word faithful means trustworthy or reliable, it means that God will do what he says.
How about God answering prayers?
Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!
How about in keeping us against the attacks of the enemy?
But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
How about in forgiving our sins?
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
The point is very simple. If God has kept a promise made to Noah thousands of years ago, will he not keep His word to you and I today, on Jan 8, 2021? Yes He will!