GOD WANT!
On Friday July 26th, 2024, while on their way to join the Gaither Homecoming Cruise to Alaska, three of the 4 members of the gospel group The Nelons, were killed in a plane crash. Other friends of the family were on board along with the pilot and his wife. None survived the accident.
While there are many wonderful messages that we could learn from this tragic story, I would like to mention just one.
On April 18th of this year, Autumn Nelon, the one member of The Nelons that was not on the plan that day, released a new single called “God Want”. Autumn is quoted as saying, “After everything I’ve walked through, ‘God Want’ has become my anthem. I’ve learned firsthand that even when life feels completely shattered, God’s presence is constant, and His promises never fail.”
If we are honest, we all fail. We fail ourselves, each other, and most important we fail God. It is a constant, we fail, and others fail us.
Then there are those two wonderful words, God Want! I googled to see how many Bible verses there are that are about God never failing us, and the best I could find was over 100. But if we read God’s Word, we will see the whole Bible is about God’s faithfulness. We see plenty of examples of our unfaithfulness to Him, but in every instance He has always been faithful. His word says He is unchanging, so He will always be faithful.
I am truly at a loss to pick a verse that describes God’s faithfulness because there are so many.
We just celebrated Easter, so in Genesis 3:15 we see God promise to bruise Satan's head, and then 4000 years later Jesus came down, defeated Satan on the cross, died, rose again, ascended to heaven, and is coming back soon! Deuteronomy 31:6 says, “Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.”
Have you been disappointed or hurt by someone or something in this life? Has someone failed us or have we failed someone? Has tragedy recently come to you? We can all say this has been true at some time in our lives. The world says the only two things you can count on is death and taxes. I am here to tell you that’s a lie! Our God defeated death on the cross and He paid our sin debt that we could never pay. “It is finished.” (Paid in Full!)
Read the words of Autumn’s song “God Want”:
People can look
At where you came from
Mistakes that you’ve made,
The damage you’ve done
Count every wrong
And decide that you’ve gone too far
People are good
At being judge and the jury
They’ll hand down a verdict
Of guilty in a hurry
Not one ounce of grace,
They’ll just walk away
Chorus
God won’t, he ain’t a leaver
He’s a call out his name and you know that he’ll be there
The world can say you’re on your own
Your last friend can leave you alone
God won’t
Verse 2
God won’t fail,
God won’t quit
He can handle the fire,
Yeah he’ll walk right through it
Let ‘em all turn their backs,
But just know that
Repeat chorus
Bridge
If you feel like his love
Is too good to be true
And he’s already given up on you