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2 Timothy 2:13 (NIV) – if we are faithless, he will remain faithful…
God’s character can be described in many words but the one word describing God that has stood out to me is faithful. He’s been faithful to provide life to me every morning, faithful to encourage me in my journey with Him, faithful to respond to my distress and faithful to answer the prayers of my heart for loved ones who need to know Him.
For years, prayers from our family went up for an uncle named Willie. He lived a good life but specifically chose never to accept lordship of Christ into his life. Health issues begin to take their toll late in his life and yet, our prayers continued to go up in relation to his eternity. We never gave up…collectively I mean. Some of us may have lost hope in our hearts but others were there to infuse faith into the prayers for his soul.
One morning the family rushed to the local hospital as Uncle Willie lay dying. Actually, he died. Only temporarily though as the doctors resuscitated him back to a functional heart beat and assisted breathing. Things still looked grim though, the medical experts said that if he ever woke up; his brain would be dead because of the oxygen lost during his temporary death.
Through it all, God was faithful. After days of lying in the Intensive Care unit of the hospital, he woke up one day, in clarity but confusion as to where he was. One of his nieces was present in the room when he awoke. After the realization that he had almost slipped into eternity without Jesus, Willie opened his life and his heart to Christ and God healed him. In fact, Willie lived for seven more years after that before going Home.
God’s faithfulness is always constant.