God’s Consistency

It’s a cold season in Nairobi, this weather can make you curl up in your bed in order to keep yourself warm, it’s the true classic tale of Netflix and chill. The interesting thing is that, even though it’s a cold season, this weather has been completely bipolar. There are days we have extremes of cold on one day and then the next day it’s completely sunny, mark you don’t forget you left the house early in the morning with the bare minimum, only for it to reach 2pm in the afternoon and boom! It’s freezing cold, like seriously? Global warming is real people! Seasons come and go and each season leaves behind its fair share of goodies or disruptions. 

I am grateful to God because He is consistent. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever,” Hebrews 13:8. Can you imagine even for a minute if God wasn’t constant? Can you imagine if He kept changing with the seasons that we have? When it’s cold He is also cold toward you and only warms up in the summer? Or if God would only bless just some chosen few and leave the rest of us wandering and pleading for His mercy? “He never changes or casts a shifting shadow, but every good and perfect gift comes from Him,” James 1:17. Let’s take a walk through different Bible personalities just to remind ourselves of God’s character of consistency and faithfulness through the ages. 

Adam and Eve disobeyed God and at that point, you’d imagine that He would cast them away and not want anything to do with them, instead, He does the opposite and makes for them clothing from animal skins, Gen 3:21. Before Noah comes into play, we see a world gone wrong, where people did evil in the sight of God to the point that the Bible records it that “the Lord was sorry He had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke His heart.” However, at the height of all this evil was a righteous man called Noah and through him, God’s plan for mankind was continued. God spared Noah and his family and gave a sign of His covenant for all generations to come, “I have placed my rainbow in the clouds, it is a sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth, never again will the floodwaters destroy all life. When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth.” We can testify that God has kept His end of the bargain, never again have we seen flood waters destroy the whole earth.

Abraham is a man that I would love to have a sit-down with and have him explain to me just how he left everything at 75 years old and started life all over again, but this time with God as His guide. He meets God when he’s 75 years, but only gets to receive the promised son when he is 100 years old – 25 years later. However, nowhere in the Bible did he flinch or want nothing to do with this God whom He had known, instead he soldiered on, and even when God asked him to sacrifice, his only son, Abraham did not think twice. I guess he figured, if God gave me a son in old age, even in this situation, He would give me another one. Because of Abraham’s obedience, he gets a place in the hallmark of faith in Hebrews 11 which speaks of great men and women who had faith in God. 

Moses was born at a time when the young boys were being killed by Pharaoh but by the grace of God, his mum managed to hide him, and he landed in the palace. When the time came for God to use him, it came at a time that seemed like a hopeless situation, Moses had just killed a man and ran away. But it was at this time, that God called him to go back and save his fellow Israelites. Moses tried to get away by saying how just how imperfect he was, forgetting that it was God who created him that way and He uses all our imperfections for His glory and honor.

David is mentioned as “a man after God’s own heart,” yet he is the same person who slept with another man’s wife, made her pregnant, and organized for the husband to be killed – murder most foul! If this happened in our times, I think David would be serving a life sentence in prison, but the beauty in this story is that God looks at the heart and not physical appearance. David repented and wrote 73 Psalms, with Psalms 51 particularly dedicated to his repentance after he had committed adultery with Bathsheba – a psalm of repentance and brokenness. I think that’s what makes David to be called a man after God’s own heart is because every time he went against God’s ways, he didn’t hide in sin, but confessed and asked for forgiveness. I know I have done the opposite one too many times, after sinning, I allowed the enemy to fill my mind with thoughts of ‘God doesn’t want anything to do with you,’ and moved far away from God instead of inclining to Him. 

Saul was a murderer who persecuted the believers back in the day! He was so zealous in his persecution, am sure he thought that was the right thing that God wanted him to do. He meets God along the way on his persecution mission, gets temporary blindness, is baptized, and through Saul, now Paul, God brings the message of salvation to the Gentiles. He goes on to write most of the New Testament books and is a classic example of ‘God can and will use anyone to preach the good news & for His own Glory,’ He is impartial and shows no favoritism, He is not a respecter of persons (Acts 10:34). 

Solomon married many wives, Rahab was a prostitute, Jonah ran away from God because he thought the people of Nineveh were too sinful to be saved and Peter denied Jesus 3 times. The Bible is full of imperfect people, and I believe it’s because God wants to show us that He didn’t send His Only Son to come and die for perfect people, after all, if we were perfect then we’d not need a Savior. “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” John 3:17-18

Every time we read through the Bible, we are met with people who did crazy things in the eyes of God, the Israelites are the perfect example. They sinned one too many times, but God was always gracious to them. We too are just like the Israelites in the Bible, and we have complained, sinned, nagged, and behaved like little brats before God. We have gone out of God’s way, one too many times, and in every situation, He still welcomed us back with open hands. He has never pushed us away, instead, He keeps inviting us to Himself, wanting a personal relationship with us because He loves us so much. God’s character has been constant from the Book of Genesis all through to the Book of Revelation. He has been faithful from the day you were born and will remain faithful in your latter years and even after we’ve left this earth. He is the one who will watch over your children and children’s children, so it’s time to change the narrative and give Him your life. You don’t know what tomorrow holds, but He does, so you are safe in His arms. 

Blessings!!