I love this question from Sarah who lives in New Haven Connecticut. It's a deep one. It's a thoughtful one. Here it is.

Pastor John, hello. I think one of the most important things I have ever learned from you of many things

is also something that is so far beyond my brain that I can only barely begin to grasp it.

It's what you say about 2nd Timothy 213.

There Paul writes,

quote, if we are faithless, God remains faithful,

for he cannot deny himself."

This verse, 2 Timothy, 2.13, celebrates God's faithfulness to God.

It's not about our faithfulness, really. I've hunted down all the places where you talk about

this passage. In your book, spectacular sins, you write, quote, God acts in righteousness when his actions accord with his own infinite worth and beauty.

Amazing.

And I read in Providence this statement, quote,

God is faithful to himself. And I read in Providence this statement, quote,

God is faithful to himself.

He is unwaveringly committed to uphold and display

what is infinitely valuable, beautiful, and satisfying, namely his own perfect and glorious being."

I read these lines and they seem to contain depths I don't understand yet.

Can you take a few minutes to explain this text?

Why do we need to know this about God?

How does this define righteousness? Why do we need to know this in the context of our own

faithfulness? How does God's commitment to His own worth define what holiness is for us? And how does it explain the worth her value of our own salvation?

Well the reason this matters that God does faithful to God, that God is faithful to God, that God is passionate to

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