We know that God is faithful because he shows us in his word. God makes covenants and promises and then goes on to keep and fulfill every single one. He makes a great nation from Abraham’s offspring, he delivers his people from Egypt, he blesses them with the land of Canaan, and he preserves a remnant after exile. Above all, in Jesus fulfills the promise to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3 and that would send a savior. He keeps every single promise and is perfectly faithful to his children.
We also have evidence of this in our own lives. We can look back and think of ways that God has been faithful to us. God repeatedly tells his people to do certain things to remember what he has done for them throughout the Old Testament. Here is an example from Joshua:
“When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, “Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man, and command them, saying, ‘Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests' feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.’” Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe. And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’ then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever.”
Joshua 4:1-7
This was a tangible thing that the Israelites could look at to remember how God was faithful to them as he led them to the promised land.
I encourage you to literally sit down and write down the ways God has been faithful to you. Add to it each time you go back to it. Spoiler alert: it’s going to end up being a very long list! I have a list in my journal and I will read over it when I am weary or when God feels distant. It is a tangible way to remember.
But don’t stop there! Tell your children, tell your friends, tell your family! There is great power in sharing how God has been faithful to you. You can encourage the faith of others with stories of God’s faithfulness.
And then rest in the truth of it. It is easier to trust God with your doubts, anxieties, and future when you have full confidence of his faithfulness.