This is an entry I posted last year on 11 May, 2007:

Great is Thy Faithfulness

Great is Thy faithfulness

Great is Thy faithfulness

Morning by morning new mercies I see

All I have needed

Thy hand hath provided

Great is Thy faithfulness

Lord unto me..

Thomas Chisholm, 1923

I guess it's time I posted something on here again - especially since it's almost halfway through the month and this is the first entry I've done.

It's been a trying couple of weeks in ways that I can't go into right now, but it's also been a blessed couple of weeks as I find myself in new relationships that I didn't expect and I don't know what I'd do without. I'm in a state of upheaval (in my life? what else is new!) but I find myself reassuring my doubts with "God's been faithful in the past - I can't stop trusting now" and that's what made me think of the song above.

I was doing my morning reading a couple days ago and I came across this verse: "If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself." - 2 Timothy 2:13

As I mentioned, I'm doing my best to be faithful right now... but when I read this verse it occurred to me that God not only won't be unfaithful - He can't be unfaithful! For God to be unfaithful to the promises He's made would be to deny Himself... to be less than He is. Wow!

I mentioned this verse to some friends a couple nights ago and one remarked that it's so unfair! We can deny God and He will remain faithful. It is unfair... and it's reassuring...and it's one more reason why I don't want to be unfaithful to Him.

Great is Thy faithfulness

Oh God my father

There is no shadow ofturning with Thee

Thou changest not

Thy compassions theyfail not

As Thou hast been

Thou forever will be.