My God is faithful

My journal entry today is from the eve of a new year. As I read I received comfort. This new year has rushed by. My circumstances have not changed much since I wrote the entry. Even as I write this the time is growing short before I must go to work and I again have not been able to have a quiet time because if the tyranny of the urgent in my life. Tomorrow will be the same with a lifegroup to attend in the morning and Band of Brothers at night. Oh, how I yearn for the quiet waters. How refreshing they will be when I can return to them.

December 31^st, 2015:

Worship: Great is Thy Faithfulness as sung by Selah; Faithful God by Laura Story

http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/selah/great_is_thy_faithfulness-lyrics-213038.html#ixzz3vxEAkZIt

Album: Be Still My Soul

Great is Thy faithfulness, oh God my Father;
There is no shadow of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not;
As Thou hast been, Thou forever wilt be.

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!

Summer and winter and springtime and harvest,
Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
to Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.

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!

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside!

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,
Great is Thy faithfulness,
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!

Lyrics: http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/selah/great_is_thy_faithfulness-lyrics-213038.html

Video:  https://youtu.be/SrsfCZvqGxQ

"Faithful God"

May the grace that sought my heart on that first day
Be the grace that binds my heart to stay
May the truth that opened up my eyes on that first time
Be the thoughts on my mind that never go away

For You are a lamp to my feet
A light to my path
You're the hand that's holding me

Faithful God, every promise kept
Every need You've met, faithful God

May the love that caught my heart to set it free
Be the love that others see in me
And may this hope that reaches to the depths of human need
Be the song that I sing in joy and suffering

For You are the love that never leaves
The friend that won't deceive
You're the one sure thing

Faithful God, every promise kept
Every need You've met, faithful God
All I am and all I'll ever be
Is all because You love faithfully
Faithful God

How deep, how wide the love
That pierced His side, the love
Redemption's mine, oh love
That will not let me go
How deep Your love

How deep, how wide the love
That pierced His side, the love
Redemption's mine, oh love
That will not let me go

How deep, how wide the love
That pierced His side, the love
Redemption's mine, oh love
That will not let me go

Faithful God, every promise kept
Every need You've met, faithful God
All I am and all I'll ever be
Is all because You love faithfully
Faithful God, faithful God

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 A-Z Lyrics LAURA STORY Lyrics "Blessings" (2011)

Video:  https://youtu.be/2JMrOec7bCk

Witness:

It’s New Year's eve when I write this. Nothing out of the norm has changed. I still have to go to work. I still have a cold, which has been with me since September. I still have a lot of debt. My wife still refuses reconciliation. As I prayed before I began, my thoughts began with recognition of this fact, but like the Psalmist moved quickly to the recognition of God’s faithfulness. I ask what song I should begin my worship with. The song Great is Thy Faithfulness began playing in my mind. I knew I had sung that before, during worship time. I don’t usually like to repeat a song, but I felt this was most appropriate at the end of one year and the dawning a new one. My circumstances may not have changed much. Solomon speaks of the vanity of life under the sun. Looking at my circumstances could lead me to despair, yet I choose to look beyond the sun to the Son. I choose not to wallow in the emptiness in my life but seek the Father’s fullness. I choose not to complain but seek the Holy Spirit’s comfort.  I remember this precious promise:

Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed,

for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning;

great is your faithfulness.

I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion;

therefore I will wait for him."

The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,

to the one who seeks him;

it is good to wait quietly

for the salvation of the Lord.

Lam 3:22-26 NIV

I recognize His invaluable immutability:

                                                God is not a man, that he should lie,

nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.

Does he speak and then not act?

Does he promise and not fulfill?

Num 23:19 NIV

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Heb 13:8 NIV

I recount His continual comfort:

                                               

My comfort in my suffering is this:

Your promise preserves my life.

Ps 119:50 NIV

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever — 

The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you.

John 14:16-17 AMP

Finally, as I enter this new year, let me remember this confession by the Apostle Paul and make it mine:

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

Rom 8:18 NIV

WORD:

Ps 24:1-6 24 The earth is the LORD 's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; 2 for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters . 3 Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in his holy place? 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false. 5 He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from God his Savior. 6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, O God of Jacob.b                                                                            SELAH NIV

Ps 24:1-6 The King of Glory A Psalm of David. 24  The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, 2 for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. 3  Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place? 4  He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false  and does not swear deceitfully. 5 He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.                                                                                                                                                                                                Selah ESV

Time has run out and I have to go to work. Some things really don’t change, do they? :)