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Faithfulness of God and of Us

She was young, beautiful, and healthy and she had a loving husband. The car accident changed all that. She was in hospital for many months fighting for her life. She survived finally but as an invalid, paralysed waste down and limited to her wheelchair. That was the end of her marriage too as her husband walked away from her life. The marriage covenant that they made to stick to each other "until death part us" was broken. It was a test of her husband's faithfulness to the marriage promise. Marriage is most evidently the area where faithfulness is tested. Relationship outside marriage where faithfulness is divided is common these days. However, faithfulness is indivisible, it is exclusive, whether it is faithfulness in marriage or in any other areas. If we search for a perfect example of faithfulness we will arrive at the biblical image of God as the faithful God. In the Bible, God is given as the model of faithfulness. God's faithfulness is what we are ...