Faithful and True

“Then I saw haven opened, and behold, a white horse!  The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war” (Revelation 19:11)

There are a lot of promises in scripture, no doubt you have some you’re clinging to right now.  There can be seasons where we wait and wait for a promise to be fulfilled, and in those seasons it can feel as though God has forgotten us, or perhaps we heard Him wrong, or maybe that promise was meant for someone else but not for me, or that God could have changed His mind.  Jesus is so completely different from us humans in this way.  Where we can break our promises, or forget, Jesus is the not only a great keeper of promises, He Himself is the promise.

There are over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament promising us a Messiah.  Every single one of these prophecies was fulfilled in Christ Jesus.  God doesn’t deal in “maybes”, He means what He says and what He promises He will always follow through with.  “God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind.  Has he said, and will he not do it?  Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?”  (Numbers 23:19).  This goes for both the blessing and the judgement God promises throughout scripture.  I recently read through the book of Ezekiel and was struck by how often God pronounces a coming judgement and follows it with “and you shall know that I am the Lord”.   It is a resounding cry throughout the book, and maybe when we really consider it, throughout the whole Bible, that God wants us to know Him.  Both His blessings and His discipline are meant to turn our hearts to Him and know that He is God.  All of His promises telling us that a Messiah, a Savior, was coming for us were meant to give us evidence that we would recognize and know Jesus when He came.  That when we look upon Jesus in the manger, we immediately know that He is Faithful and True.

So whatever promise we are clinging to right now, we can rest assured that in Jesus we are guaranteed it will come to fruition, “For all the promises of God find their Yes in Him.  That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory” (1 Corinthians 1:20-21).  And while we wait with hope and trust, we can draw nearer and grow closer to the God whose desire is for us know Him through those promises, and to know God is to know Him who was promised, whose name is Faithful and True.