God's faithfulness

so a sermon on lamentations 2 from bob thune...

God is so faithful to his covenants which is sometimes good for us and other times bad for us. we too often mistake God's faithfulness for God being on our side and always working for us... but really he wouldn't be God if he did that. sometimes he works against even his own people ... check out lamentations 2. he doesn't make idol threats, but instead gives out both blessings and curses according to what he promises in his covenants. if we don't obey ... there will be consequences. sometimes i think that believers nowaday think it's only non believers who will face the horrid curses for their sins and they should all repent for those ... but in reality when we don't repent, he is faithful to work against us. the whole sowing and reaping stuff ... if we sow disobedience and sin how can we expect to reap blessing? if we sow laziness how can we expect spiritual maturity? but we do!! how does that happen!!

because God is faithful we need to fear him. let's worship God for his faithfulness in the midst of lamenting over the sin in us, around us, and towards us ... let's worship him because ITS GOOD NEWS THAT HE IS FAITHFUL... he even worked against his own perfect son because he is faithful towards his covenants

oh that we would have a right view of God

at least we aren't to the end of the book of lamentations yet :) ... as we read in ch 2 about the writer begging for mercy. ... he is also faithful in his mercy!