Faithful and Faithless

Following Jesus is an interesting journey. If someone tells you that once you follow Jesus all will be peachy, they are misleading you. God is always at work in our lives, but life also happens. We encounter difficulties, struggles, and our own failures in the midst of a dynamic story. This is why reading and understanding the Bible is important, because within the stories of the Old Testament we learn that God makes promises and then acts and works, but often it is not what we would expect. As the story of the Old Testament unfolds we begin to see two key themes. First, the people of God are not faithful. They fail and struggle constantly. Second, God is faithful and this is always our hope.