“He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.” Ps33.5
It is said that you know a person when you can predict their actions. In many ways, Scripture tells us that this is true of God. Now it is true, that He has done some unpredictable things, like asking Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice, but when it comes down to it, we can count on God to always act a certain way. To say that God is predictable, is just another way of saying He is faithful to His own essential character. God is predictably devoted to what is right. Can you imagine if God were moody, one day loving right but the next preferring wrong. What if He decided to be unfair, unjust, unloving, unkind. This of course is unimaginable. Praise God that it is. I have asked my students the trick question if they believe that God can do anything. They are surprised when I tell them that Christians have never espoused that He can. We teach our children that God can do all that is consistent with being God. God cannot do wrong. He cannot be unjust, or decide one day to not be all knowing. Just as a person cannot stop being a person, God cannot stop being God. He is a law unto Himself. This is why, He ultimately allows men to choose hell over heaven. Because He is love, He does not force Himself on people. One essential quality of love, is that it must be freely given.
You can count on a faithful person to be faithfully faithful. If we think about it, we count on God’s faithfulness everyday. We know that when we pray to Him, we will never find Him to be moody. 2/5/07 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
