"God is absolutely faithful."

God will never give up on you. He is absolutely faithful. “Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.” (Isaiah 49:15)

God is the very definition of faithful. At first in the Scriptures we see God's faithfulness taught to us by using the sacrament of marriage (cf. Hosea), later St. Paul flips that idea upon its head, and says that our marriages are actually based upon God's faithful love for us.

“So (also) husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. 'For this reason a man shall leave (his) father and (his) mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.' This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.” (Ephesians 5:28-32)

God's faithfulness is the very model with which we base our faithfulness on. Even if a woman leaves her husband, or a child rejects his mother, God will not give up on you! All our human relationships contain some risk of being abandoned, yet this is not so with our God. The love a child has for its mother is merely a shadow of the love God has for us, similar to how the Earthly Temple was a shadow of the one to come (cf. Colossians 2:17 and Hebrews 10:1). The love of a wife and a husband are as dust compared to the love God has for us.

Now, any Franciscan Troubadour can tell you what it is like to fall in love, but how often do we listen? So ease deep into the recesses of your memory, and recall your first love. Recall the fluttering heart, the intensity of the passion! Recall that first flirtatious fluttering of the eyes, that first tossing of your intestines as your hands touched! Now know that the love you recall is but scum floating on a river compared to the pure brook of God's love. A love that flows out and purifies the salty water of our life, causing new life to spring up in our dead seas (Ezekiel 47:1-12). When we compare our love to God's, how fleeting is the feeling? With what swift feet those feeling fade and anger swells up that the toilet seat was left up one more time, or the dishes aren't put away precisely where they should be. God is far more faithful in His continuous love. God faithfully loves adulterous Jerusalem, and if she only turned around and went back, as the prodigal son, would God in His faithfulness restore her. "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were unwilling!” (Luke 13:34)

Further Reading: The child Israel grows up, spurns his Father, yet is taken back (Hosea 11).