Faithful and Right

 DEVOTION

THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS

FAITHFUL AND RIGHT

Rom 3:3-4

3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness? 4 Not at all! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: "So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge."  

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Paul is still in the middle of his very long argument. He begins this portion with the fact that whether a person has faith or not, it matters not, the fact that God is always faithful. We can also say that God has never said anything but the truth, in fact, Jesus is the truth, as well as the light and the way. We cannot say that about ourselves. As humans, we are unable to speak the truth all the time for we are told straight away that we are liars If we say we have never lied, then the truth is not in us, and we have therefore lied. Can we say that we have always been faithful? Here again, God is the only one who can be perfectly faithful all the time, without fault. We, on the other hand, realize that we are not always faithful and without fault. In fact, there may be times when we even question our faith. That is not to say that we lose faith, stop believing in Jesus and turn our back on God, walking off into the sunset to enjoy ourselves in a life of self-indulgence. We will never stop believing and trusting in God and trusting in Jesus. We are fully aware that Jesus said to trust in God and to trust also in him, that he was going to prepare a place for us and that if he did prepare a place for us that he would come back and take us to that place so that we may also be where he is. Yet, the question remains, how much do we trust him. Does our faith in believing God can do anything, remain steadfast and to the fullest, or do we waver just a bit when we do not see God working? Then we have to ask if our faith remains strong when we consider that Jesus told us to ask for anything in his name and it would be done for us. It seems we simply do not ask for everything or all our needs, because our faith is not as strong as it should be. Are we lying to ourselves about how much faith we have? We also know what David said in the Psalm that Paul is quoting, that God is always proved right when he speaks. Once again, we have to say that we cannot always be proven to be right in what we speak, for every man is a lair according to the word of God. That is not to say that we lie all the time or live a lie. It simply means that we cannot be one hundred percent truthful all of the time or for our whole lives. Even in these words which we are recording for what appears to be forever, as once on the web, always on the web, at least until the end of time, is it possible that we are always speaking the fullness of truth? It is not that we are attempting to lie or be deceptive about the truth, it is just that being a man, we are capable of misinterpreting the truth, and therefore what we say could not be one hundred percent right, as it may be our opinion rather than the truth God desires us to know. Even if we have studied for years and learned much, even if we have degrees, we cannot always be right.  However, it is our goal as believers in Christ, to be faithful and to be right in our words,  yet we know that may evade us from time to time, and thus, we could be wrong and our faith could be stronger. What we know as an absolute is that God is always faithful and always right.