Ta fidélité

Éternel, ta bonté est dans les cieux, ta fidélité atteint jusqu'aux nues. Psaume 36. 5

Je sais qui j'ai cru, et je suis persuadé qu'il a la puissance de garder ce que je lui ai confié. 2 Timothée 1. 12
 

Oui, ta fidélité, Dieu notre Père,
N'a jamais d'ombre ni de changement,
Tu es le Même, en toi les tiens espèrent,
Tu as compassion de tous tes enfants.

Les astres dans les cieux et sur la terre,
Tes œuvres en tout lieu chantent en chœur
De ton pouvoir divin le grand mystère,
Proclamant ta grandeur, Dieu créateur.

Auprès de toi, Seigneur, la grâce abonde,
Le pardon, le salut, ta douce paix.
De tes dons merveilleux tu nous inondes,
Déversant sur nos pas mille bienfaits.

Ta fidélité, ton immense bonté,
Se renouvellent pour nous chaque jour.
Tous nos besoins, c'est ta main qui les comble,
Oui, ta fidélité dure à toujours.

R. Demaurex – H. Arnéra

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Faith-Building Memories

Great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:23

As we look ahead to the new year, let’s remember that God has always been and always will be faithful.
 

As I stepped into the music-filled sanctuary, I looked around at the crowd that had gathered for a New Year’s Eve party. Joy lifted my heart with hope, as I recalled the prayers of the previous year. Our congregation had collectively grieved over wayward children, deaths of loved ones, job losses, and broken relationships. But we’d also experienced God’s grace as we recalled changed hearts and healed personal connections. We’d celebrated victories, weddings, graduations, and baptisms into God’s family. We’d welcomed children born, adopted, or dedicated to the Lord, and more—so much more.
 

Reflecting over the history of trials our church family faced, much like Jeremiah remembered his “affliction” and his “wandering” (Lam. 3:19), I believed that “because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail” (v. 22). As the prophet reassured himself of God’s past faithfulness, his words comforted me: “The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him” (v. 25).
 

That night, each person in our congregation represented a tangible expression of God’s life-transforming love. Whatever we’d face in the years to come, as members of the interdependent body of Christ, we could rely on the Lord. And as we continue to seek Him and support one another, we can, as did Jeremiah, find our hope being ratified by faith-building memories of God’s unchanging character and dependability.
 

Lord, thank You for using our past to assure us our hope remains secure in Your everlasting faithfulness.