Enduring Truth

"For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures for all generations" (Psalms 100:5)

There are so many wonderful things we could say about The Lord and praise Him for, but the fact that He is good--all the time and all the time He is good--is just one aspect of who He is.  His mercy--His willingness to give us chance after chance to get things right instead of throwing us under a bus the first time we mess up, and His enduring truth--a truth that cannot be changed even though many have tried, but it has lasted from generation to generation.

Although there are many who will say that the Bible is merely a collection of word-of-mouth stories which have been interpreted in various ways time and time again; it is still a marvel that the basic premises of what has been told is still being told.  In the beginning...God--created all things.  Man broke fellowship with God through disobedience. Man's relationship with God was reconciled through Jesus Christ.  His truth endures--the slander of non-believers; the compromising of those who proclaim belief, but don't live the life, His truth--endures to and for all generations.  The story will still be told, long after many of us have ceased living and His truth, not man's (because mankind's truth changes at the whim of man) will continue to endure.  His truth--we need to be in right relationship with Him and He is the only one in whom our faith should reside. He is the only one who can save us from ourselves.

God's enduring truth is the firm foundation on which we have established our faith and can indeed look forward to receiving the reward due us for living a godly life--our eternal resting place in Heaven. Thank God for His goodness, His mercy and His enduring truth!