Faithfulness Remanent
Matt Miles • September 22, 2021
Faithfulness through Global Flood Remanent
Last week on a trip to northwest Wyoming, I had an experience that highlighted the faithfulness of the Lord. While there we got to visit Yellowstone. The National Park system has many wonderful places to experience the great diversity of the Lord’s creation and very few rival the magnitude of Yellowstone. It is a place that testifies to His faithfulness in a grand way.
Like many other parks, Yellowstone, our first National Park, is a place of beauty. Rocky Mountain NP, Yosemite NP and Grand Canyon NP are all beautiful in different ways, yet Yellowstone is so much more diverse than those others. It has the mountain vistas, canyons and wildlife galore, along with something the others don’t have - geothermal activity. As I toured the park from one side to the other, it was very evident that the earth is still quite active just below the surface. This activity is a result of the Global Flood from Genesis, regardless of what the numerous signs throughout the park say as they try to educate its visitors. The evidence is overwhelming, from the pure flood rock strata hundreds to thousands of feet thick next to mud volcanoes spewing their toxic sludge from the depths. Your senses are bombarded on a constant basis with reminders of the past judgment of the flood and God’s faithfulness to Noah through it.
One of the more memorable places is the famous geyser “Old Faithful”. Out of an earthen vent comes a jet of boiling sulfur-rich water tens of feet into the air. To the delight of the crowd gathered, it erupts on a semi-regular basis. Old Faithful used to be very faithful, almost like clockwork. Now, it is more “mostly faithful”, with a window of 10-15 minutes either direction of its estimated eruption time. The geyser’s faithfulness seems to have lessened over the years, unlike our Lord's.
This wonderful place impacted me with a truth - the Lord is always faithful no matter how it seems at the time. Sometimes it seems He is not faithful because it’s not on our timing or to our expectations. Other times there may be destructive things around us that we go through and He shows His faithfulness through
all situations. Yellowstone is a place to remind us that the judgement of the past is real and His faithfulness to those that worship and honor Him is as true as it gets. Even when uncertainty looms over our heads, we are reminded that He will be faithful in the coming judgment the same as in the past. Continue to be faithful and keep LOOKING UP!
As we begin a new year, it brings new potential and a figurative “clean slate”. Yet at all times it is always good to remember that the Lord never changes and neither does His purposes. His desire is that all come to Him for salvation. As it is not all will seek their Creator, yet He is always at work around us guiding life through the present sinful, cursed world. His purposes are always to bring glory to himself as our Great Almighty Lord God. This divine guiding, moving, and protecting of His Spirit in the affairs of life is called Providence , our theme for the year here at Creation Truth. His Providence has always been at work since the beginning, guiding for the purpose he has designed us for. Over the course of history, we as people have missed it or chosen not to follow it. Providence of the Lord is what guided His people out of Egypt to the Promised Land. Even while suffering judgment for their sin in the desert, there was Providence , providing for their needs with daily manna and encouraging them on to the Promised Land. At just the right time, Providence bestowed to us a Savior, Jesus Christ. Never would we have planned or made provision for the Savior of the world in the manner He came to earth. All of His work while in the flesh was done to point us to Him and His Glory. Providence was fulfilled on the cross for all eternity with the way for all to find the Lord and salvation, to be guided out of death and overcome the trial of this life through His death, burial and resurrection. Providence , 250 years ago, guided our country’s forefathers to seek a land to freely worship their Creator and Savior, with freedom from tyranny and a pursuit of liberty for all. Even though not all were followers of the Lord, it was still more than evident that they knew His Providence had a protecting hand on us. Only by His great Providence did we become a country, for the Lord knew we would become a beacon of that freedom and, ultimately, the only true freedom that comes from Christ. Through many trials and failures in history we have sinned before our Lord, and we must continually repent and seek Him for forgiveness. His Providence has allowed our nation of people from many tongues and tribes to melt together. We have been, and I pray continue to be, the largest Christian nation in the world, proclaiming who He is before all else. This year, as we focus on His Providence , may you seek Him and be reminded of all the times He has guided, protected and blessed you for His name. David wrote in Psalm 31:3-5 of the Lord’s Providence : “For You are my high rock and my fortress; For Your name's sake You will lead me and guide me. You will bring me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, For You are my strength. Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have ransomed me, O Yahweh, God of truth.”(LSB) We at Creation Truth Foundation look forward to another year of opportunities to serve, champion, and exalt His Name. May you be guided, protected and blessed through Providence this year.
EACH OF THESE ARTICLES ARE EXCERPTS FROM AMERICA’S EPIC ADVENTURE TM - CTF'S NEWEST VBS CURRICULUM From Lesson 1: The Pilgrims, Walking by Faith in the Lord – Proverbs 3:5-6