07/16/2026
GOD IS FAITHFUL
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
All the attributes of God allow us to know and understand him better. Studying his attributes can bring us to a deeper relationship with him and strengthen our faith and our obedience; but my favorite attribute, the one that underpins my entire life, is his faithfulness.
The scriptures are filled with stories of God’s faithfulness to his people, and as a Christian, your life is a testimony of God’s faithfulness to you.
The faithfulness of Jesus is what I heard from the sermon on Easter Sunday as a 14 year old girl in a small country church in rural Alabama. “Philippians 2:8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” That Sunday I saw the faithfulness of Jesus and the faithfulness of God “Romans 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?” Those truths of God’s love, sacrifice and faithfulness captured my heart and I surrendered my life to him.
But that is just the beginning of the story. Throughout high school I walked with Jesus and grew in my faith and understanding of scripture. Then came high school graduation and college. As with so many young people, I was faced with a whole new world. Everything was new, exciting and different, nothing that a small town girl had ever experienced. I became so enamored with my freedom and opportunities that I let my faith slip into the background. God tells us “Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.” This is a warning I should have heeded.
I met a handsome athlete and had opportunities to be a part of the “in crowd”. In my senior year of college I married that handsome man and began a life devoid of God’s plan for my life. I forgot my foundation. “Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,” I allowed myself to become entangled and forgot the foundation of my faith.
After 8 years of marriage my world began to crumble. In January of 1976 my mother was hospitalized with severe undiagnosed pain. By February she was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. In mid February I learned that I was pregnant with our third child. My mother died on March 23rd. I watched her suffer but I also watched her cling to Jesus in all her pain. She died singing praises to God.
Through this experience he began to resuscitate my heart. Jesus was calling “Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest. 29. Take my yolk upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
In June my husband told me he wanted a divorce. I was devastated, 5 months pregnant, had two children, ages 5 and 16 months and still reeling from the loss of my mother. The Sunday after my husband left, I went to church. I don’t remember the sermon or the altar call or the music; I just found myself at the altar pouring my heart out to God, my faithful father. He was waiting for me there with love, forgiveness, cleansing, and restoration. He had been waiting, watching and preparing for my return. Who can deny the faithfulness of a God like that!
I would like to say that my faithfulness to Him hasn’t faltered since that time, but I am still clothed in the flesh of this world. I struggle with sin like we all do in this life. Each new day I must remember the promise that Jesus made to his apostles not long before he went to the cross. “John 16:33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” When we struggle with the cares of this world, we must also remember that not only did Jesus overcome the world, he also left us with another promise “John 14:16-17 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.” And he left us with each other. “Galatians 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” So Jesus has overcome the world, he has sent the Holy Spirit to us and he has given us the each other.
Five years after the divorce, God brought Mike Quick into our lives along with his three children. We became a family of eight and God has seen us through many challenges. Today we are the blessed grandparents of 22 and great grandparents of 5, soon to be 6. One of our granddaughters is due today, as I am writing this. We recently celebrated our 45th anniversary and Mike’s 80th birthday. God has given us numerous opportunities to serve him through our church and in both local and foreign missions. We are richly blessed with Christian friends.
There are so many God stories I could tell because his love and care are abundant in every aspect of our lives. And he will be faithful to the end. We know that we are most likely in the final decade of our lives but that doesn’t cause me to mourn, it causes me to watch and anticipate!
II Corinthians 4:16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
❤️Janice Quick
