as much of our God is faithful to our spiritual life, He is also faithful in our physical life. He is faithful to do what we don't consider. He faithfully allows each new day to come. He faithfully brings season in their time. Our God faithfully provides us with food to eat, water to drink, and air to breathe. Our faithful God provides wind, sun and rain so that crops may grow and flourish.
Our Father in Heaven faithfully gives us new knowledge to learn and explore. Our Abba faithfully gifts us with minds that comprehend, and tongues to communicate. Our God faithfully gives us language, and music and emotions. As hard as it is to conceive, God does not have to allow any one of these things. God is under no compulsion to let the earth keep spinning. God did not have to provide us with language, or bless us with a wide range of emotions. But our God is good. Our God faithfully provides for us. He provides mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Nevertheless, as Richard Patterson writes, "God's goodness is not to be taken lightly. Even as Israel learned, those who are members of His earthly family are to respond in faithfulness to him and his high moral standards. Otherwise God's favor can be turned into needed chastisement and correction (2 Kings 17:1-23, Isa. 26: 1-6)."
God is faithful to us, but He didn't have to be. Because He is faithful, we need to make sure that we respond to God with appropriate measure of action.
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