God is faithful, even if we’re not

“In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfil the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and to put it in writing.”

- Ezra 1:1

In the book of 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, all of the sins of the kings of Judah and Israel, which also caused their own kingdoms to sin was recorded. And because of the sins these kingdoms has committed, their citizens were exiled to Assyria as God’s punishment to them, and have lived there for a long time. But in the first chapter of the book of Ezra, it was told that sometime after the exile, God moved the heart of Cyrus, king of Persia and used Him to allow the people of Judah and Israel to return to Judah and rebuild the temple of the Lord. This event has clearly shown that even though the people of Judah and Israel has been unfaithful to the Lord their God, and has rebelled against Him, God is still faithful and will always make a way for His people.

In the current times, we must know as Christians that this faithfulness that God has shown to Judah and Israel has never faded. Up until this very moment, God is still faithful to His own people – which is now, the believers of Christ – us Christians.

Now as Christians, we may have times in our lives where we have fallen into temptation and has become disobedient to God even though we are already born again, and in these times, we might have felt that God has left us and has let Satan take control of our lives as a punishment to us – but this is wrong. Of course, every action we make has its own consequence, and it’s just normal for us to be punished because of the sins we made. But we must know that this doesn’t mean that God has delivered us into the hands of the devil. If we think like that in those times, then we may have forgotten the fact that God is always faithful!

The fact that God is always faithful and will never forsake us is something that many backsliders has forgotten after they committed a sin. They went away and hid in shame because they are afraid of condemnation and they think that they wouldn’t be forgiven again, which is incorrect. I believe, the reason why they ran away from being a Christian was because they didn’t have a solid grasp of this very personality of God.

So with this, it has been revealed to me that it is very essential for every believer to grasp this personality of God so that we could continue on the journey we are taking in this Christian life. We should never lose our faith, hope, and trust in the Lord for He remains faithful forever, and will always give us a second chance every time we fall.

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