Great Is Thy Faithfulness by David Jeremiah

Tuesday, August 14 Great Is Thy Faithfulness    He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.. 1 Thessalonians 5:24    In his book about preaching, Pastor Charles Bugg recalls a day when he didn’t feel like giving the sermon. His son had been diagnosed with a critical illness and had suffered radiation treatments and surgeries. Pastor Charles, overcome with fear and fatigue, wasn’t sure how he could stand in the pulpit. “I have no energy to preach,” he told himself as the congregation opened the service by singing, “Great is Thy Faithfulness, O God our Father. There is no shadow of turning with Thee.”

Recommended Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5:23-28

“That wasn’t a new song,” recalls Charles. “That Sunday, however, those familiar words became manna from heaven. I was tired; I was anxious; my faith in God was brittle. If preaching that day depended on my feelings, I could have the benediction and go home. Singing that song, though, was a searing reminder…. I was singing about a God whose faithfulness changes not.”1     The constancy of God in every situation allays our fears. He who calls us is faithful. He gives us “strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.”    God is faithful, and that trumps all our problems, tears, tragedies, and the very prospect of death itself.  David Jeremiah