He is faithful

Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for He has given you the autumn rains because He is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before. - Joel 2:23

Trying to feel a little autumn or fall in the air these days after what has been to me one of the hottest Augusts in a while.  In fact, I don't remember an August this hot since Ivan hit. ... Just sayin'.

Here in Joel, there were locusts that swarmed and devoured the land leaving the people without crops and devastating complete regions.  God promises the people that the locusts won't destroy them and they will have grain and new wine.  And so, they are to "rejoice in the Lord your God" because He is delivering them "because He is faithful".

If we want to be like God, to have His characteristics, then we must be faithful.  If God is faithful to us, delivered us from the locusts that seek to destroy us each year with the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Savior, then our chief characteristic, the one we work the most on, might should be our faith in Him.  Do we truly trust Him in everything simply because He says it.  If not, then we need to work on our faith.  Do we wake up and think to ourselves, "If God isn't in today, then I'm not going to make it."  If not, then we need to work on our faith.  Our faith must be a belief in and complete dependence on our living Lord and nothing else.  

If we are defined by nothing else, we should at least always be defined by an obvious and deliberate faith in our God "because he is faithful".