Faithful - 1. Keeping faith; maintaining allegiance to someone; constant; loyal.
2. Accurate; reliable; exact. Faithful implies continued, steadfast adherence to a person to which one is bound by an oath, duty, and obligation. Constant suggests freedom from fickleness in affections or loyalties. Resolute stresses unwavering determination.
Synonyms
Faithfulness: devotion, loyalty, trustworthiness, reliability, dependability, fidelity, allegiance
Faithful: constant, unchanging, consistent, permanent, steady, immutable, continual
There are so many elements of God's faithfulness. Some are:
- His faithfulness to his people
- His faithfulness to his covenant
- His faithfulness to the work he has begun in us
- His faithfulness to his promises, to who he is
The psalmist speaks of God's faithfulness with these words:
Psalm 34
- Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
- The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
- The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their cry
- The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.
- The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
- A righteous man may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all.