Faithfulness like Wind

In my mind, I like to think of God's faithfulness like the wind. It is not a tangible object that I can visibly see, or touch and wrap my hands around. It does not always obviously make itself known in my day-to-day life. But, because God is gracious, He reveals His faithfulness to us through the Holy Spirit. There is evidence of His faithfulness everywhere. His faithfulness is like the wind. I cannot physically see the wind moving through the air around me, but I can see its influence everywhere. I see it rustle the leaves and make the flowers play. I see it in time spent with my roommates, laughing, processing through hard seasons, and time spent sharing burdens and crying over them together. The people around us are God's provision. Although we cannot see or touch the attribute of God's faithfulness, we have evidence of it everywhere. God does not ask us to believe because we can see, He asks us to trust and have faith. "For we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5:7). We are able to develop faith by learning from His example.

"if we are faithless, He remains faithful - for He cannot deny Himself" (2 Timothy 2:13)

We may not see the blueprint of His plan, and we may busy ourselves too much with temporary things to notice God's eternal work around us, but God is faithful. He is faithful when we are not, and when we choose not to look for evidence of His faithfulness. I do not think that God desires a relationship with each of us individually so that He can make our lives comfortable, successful, and picture-perfect in whatever way we may imagine. There may be some times of rustled feathers, and of houses built on the sand blown over. But through all circumstances, we are given life abundantly through the righteousness of Jesus, because God's faithfulness is unchanging. A life lived with Jesus is a life that is guaranteed trial, but it is also a life that is guaranteed eternity with our Lord.

As believers, we have the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. As a result of being indwelled by the Spirit and also being made in the likeness of God, we possess His attributes, poor reflections though they may be at times. Therefore, because God is faithful, I have the capacity to be faithful by the Spirit. In my own life, I have been learning about faithfulness through prayer. I seek the Lord in prayer often through request, and usually lacking perseverance or seriousness. God graciously fosters growth in my faith by leading me to persist in prayer, knowing that immediate gratification would quench my perceived need of Him. Receiving an immediate answer would not call for trust, rather my trust would simply be a product of visible results. "God is so good" are my thoughts to answered prayers. Truthfully, God is good regardless of how He answers my prayers, because God is faithful. He is faithful to promote His glory and He is faithful to make believers more like His Son.

What would our lives look like if we let them be a demonstration of God's faithfulness?