"You Alone Are Loyal"-Jehovah "Will Not Leave His Loyal Ones"

Jehovah has time and again demonstrated his loyalty.  Since Jehovah is perfectly consistent, the loyalty he shows toward his faithful servants never wanes.  The psalmist wrote:  "A young man I used to be, I have also grown old and yet I have not seen anyone righteous  left entirely, nor his offspring looking for bread.  For Jehovah is a lover of justice, and he will not leave his loyal ones." (Psalm 37:25, 28) True, as the Creator, Jehovah deserves out worship.  (Revelation 4:11)  Still, because he is loyal, Jehovah treasures our faithful acts. - Malachi 3:16, 17.


In his loving-kindness, Jehovah repeatedly comes to the aid of his people when they are in distress.  The psalmist tells us: "He is guarding the souls of his loyal ones; out of the hand of the wicked ones he delivers them." (Psalm 97:10) Consider the dealings  with the nation of Israel.  After their miraculous deliverance through the Red Seam, the Israelites proclaimed in song to Jehovah:  "You in your loving-kindness [or, "loyal love,"] have led the people whom you have recovered."  (Exodus 15:13) The deliverance at the Red Sea certainly was an act of loyal love on Jehovah's part. Moses therefore told the Israelites:  "It was not because of your being the most populous of all the peoples that Jehovah showed affection for you so that he chose you, for you were the least of all the peoples.  But it was because  of Jehovah's loving you , and because of his keeping the sworn statement that he has sworn to your forefathers, that Jehovah brought you out with a strong hand, that he might redeem you from the house of slaves from the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt." -Deuteronomy 7:7,8.


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From the book: Draw Close to Jehovah