How faithful and trustworthy too

Lovely

Oh Lord Jesus

How stedfast is Thy faithfulness!
For this I worship Thee;
It is established in the heav’n,
And ever stands for me.
Amen amen

Keep us streadfast in your faithfulness, Lord! Your mercy is forever!

In you we have surety

GOD’S FAITHFULNESS IN LEADING US INTO HIS ECONOMY

Although we are unfaithful, God is faithful. Lamentations 3:23b says, “Great is Your faithfulness. ” The chorus of a well-known hymn on God’s faithfulness (Hymns, #19) says, “‘Great is Thy faithfulness! ’ ‘Great is Thy faithfulness! ’ / Morning by morning new mercies I see; / All I have needed Thy hand has provided—/ ‘Great is Thy faithfulness, ’ Lord, unto me! ” We may understand what the Bible says and what this hymn says about God’s faithfulness either in a natural way or in a spiritual way. When you sing this hymn, how do you understand the word faithfulness? If you understand God’s faithfulness in a natural way, you may think that He is faithful primarily in the matter of material provisions or physical blessings. When some say that God is faithful, they mean that He is faithful to take care of their material needs. However, in 1 Corinthians 1:9 Paul says, “God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. ” God is faithful in this matter, but He may not be faithful to provide you a large house or a well-paying job. I would not deny the fact that God is faithful in caring for our welfare. My point is that God’s faithfulness is not according to our natural understanding.

Life-study of Jeremiah

Message 4 (LSM)

It’s only by looking back over my life that I see how faithful the Lord has been to me through all the years. Even when my faith has wavered, He has been faithful. He has to be faithful to His Son. How faithful and trustworthy He has proved Himself. I am still learning to trust Him. The more I know Him the more I know His faithfulness. I’m learning to trust Him for everything.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A hymn that beautifully exalts the faithfulness of our Father God. With each verse, it resounds the unwavering nature of His promises, providing a comforting and sure foundation for trust and worship.

Samuel Augustus Ward was born December 28, 1847, Newark, New Jersey. He died September 28, 1903, Newark, New Jersey and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery Newark, New Jersey.

Samuel was the son of Samuel Cutler Ward and nephew of Julia Ward Howe, who wrote “Battle Hymn of the Republic, ” a famous American Civil War song after she and her husband visited the Union Army camp near the Potomac River. Upon hearing the soldiers singing the song “John Brown’s Body, ” she was inspired to write it the next day.

“I woke in the gray of the morning, and as I lay waiting for dawn, the long lines of the desired poem began to entwine themselves in my mind, and I said to myself, ‘I must get up and write these verses, lest I fall asleep and forget them! ” So I sprang up out of bed and in the dimness found an old stump of a pen which I remembered using the day before. I scrolled these verses almost without looking at the paper’”(Julia W. Howe).

Samuel Ward studied music under Jan Pychowski in New York City, and founded a music store in Newark, New Jersey. He became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church, New York, and in 1880, succeeding Henry Cutler; a brass plaque in his memory was placed on the parish house there in 1934. Ward also founded Newark’s Orpheus club in 1889.

In the secular world, he is best remembered for his tune “Materna, ” used for the anthem America the beautiful.

This hymn was written from the vantage point of the heavenlies, concerning the Father God's faithfulness. Every verse of this hymn emphasizes the Lord's unchanging faithfulness not in a mundane, pedestrian sense, but much rather in the riches of who He is in this attribute of His Godhead. This hymn is not monochromic, but rather in regards to the "rainbow round about His throne", which in principle matches the foundations of the New Jerusalem as the holy city, the Lord's faithfulness is resplendent and overflowing with a rich expression of who He is and the solid representation of who He is to us in His faithfulness to make us that holy city, the New Jerusalem.