Faithful means being firm, loyal, and steady in your support, affection, or duty to a person, promise, or belief. There are few people we find who are faithful. In a world full of corruption, greed, and fake news we can sometimes feel we have no where to turn to. We struggle with finding anyone we can put our faith in. Most everything is suspect and we question many things. Distrust is rampant in society. Yet, we strive for someone we know is faithful. Someone we can rely on. Unfortunately there are few choices in the world. However, there is someone who is faithful. Deuteronomy 7:9 says, “He is the Rock, His works are perfect, and all His ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is He.”

We live in a world that judges everything. We’re all guilty. We might not think we are playing judge, but if we really think about it, we are. “Oh, they’ll never amount to anything.” “I can’t believe they would wear that in public.” These are judgment statements. We make such statements with limited knowledge and many times we don’t even know the person we judge. The thing is when we judge others we are replacing God as Judge. We are essentially saying we know better than God.

God as a Creator takes us back to the first chapter of Genesis, the beginning of the Bible. If we are going to look at who God is we must know where the relationship between God and creation began. Prior to this time there was God. Without Him there is nothing. God created and sustains all things. The prophet Isaiah sums it up by saying, “This is what God the Lord says— the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it” (Isaiah 42:5). God turned nothing into something, and that something was crowned with God’s greatest creation, us.