Infinitely True!

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. (Deuteronomy 7:6-9 ESV).

The title of our devotional today is a bit incomplete. Perhaps we should look at the whole of the statement that God is faithful; He Is infinitely, unchangingly true. Moses writes for us in today’s reading that we can KNOW “that the LORD is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands" (v. 9). The Apostle Paul echoes that thought when he wrote to Timothy, “If we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself” (2 Timothy 2:13). As with all of God’s attributes, they are not separate, isolated traits but interconnected parts of his perfect whole being. So his faithfulness cannot be understood apart from his “immutability,” the fact that he never changes. So when we read that God remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself, we see these attributes working together. The fact that he is unchanging means he cannot be unfaithful. A. W. Pink writes: “God is true. His Word of Promise is sure. In all His relations with His people God is faithful. He may be safely relied upon. No one ever yet really trusted Him in vain. We find this precious truth expressed almost everywhere in the Scriptures, for His people need to know that faithfulness is an essential part of the Divine character. This is the basis of our confidence in Him.” The fact that God is infinitely, unchangingly faithful means that he never forgets anything, never fails to do anything he has set out to do, never changes his mind or takes back a promise. Of course, we don’t always understand or see how his plan is faithful. In our limited understanding and finite minds, God’s faithfulness might look a lot like abandonment. But we should be encouraged in these moments by remembering that God is nevertheless unchangingly faithful, good, always with us and wise. That truth, perhaps more than any other, allows me the strength to take another step when just that small exertion seems impossible. God is indeed infinitely true!