Great Is Thy faithfulness

"And the water covered their enemies; there was not one of them left. Then they believed His words; they sang His praises. Soon they forgot His works; they waited not for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. [...] Many times did He deliver them; but they provoked Him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. Nevertheless, He regarded their affliction when He heard their cry...." Ps. 106:11-14, 43-44

"If we are faithless, He abideth faithful...." II Tim. 2:13

It is a refreshing thing to know that God's faithfulness is not contingent upon our faithfulness. God's faithfulness is contingent upon no one but Himself, His own holy character. The author of Hebrews said of His promises, "Because He could swear by no greater, He swore by Himself" (Heb. 6:13), which is precisely what He did (Gen. 15).
When our Lord was here, He did not make the loyalty of the people the foundational motive force of His mission (John 2:23-25); rather, it was the immutable will of His Father (John 6:38-40) and His obedience to that will (John 5:30; Phil. 2:5-8) that moved Him.
It is to our great shame that we are ever faithless, and to God's great glory that He is ever faithful, and that He gives us the power to be faithful (Phil. 1:6; 2:13; 4:13). If there is anything that we should learn from the history of Israel, it is this: our vileness and His goodness, our weakness and His strength, our faithlessness and His faithfulness. "We have sinned.... Nevertheless, He saved..." (Ps. 106:6, 8).

-Jon Vowell