The tarrying is only from our point of view, there is no tarrying

neither is there any hurrying with God.  The vision is for an appointed time.

There will be no disappointment at the end.

The promise made to Joshua is repeated by David to Solomon when he

'Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed:

for the Lord God, even my God, will be with thee; He will not fail

thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work' (1

Chron. 28:20).

What is true of typical men like Joshua or Solomon, who were failing men at

the best, is abundantly true of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Matthew may record

that at the last critical hour, the Son of God had to endure the forsaking of

the Father for our sakes (Matt. 27:46), but John gives us the glorious

triumphant word 'It is finished' (John 19:30).

If the success of Joshua was assured because the Lord would neither

fail nor forsake him, how much more must this be true of Christ:

'I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent Me' (John 8:16).

'And He that sent Me is with Me: the Father hath not left Me alone; for

I do always those things that please Him' (John 8:29).

'I speak that which I have seen with My Father' (John 8:38).

'I and My Father are One' (John 10:30).

The words that form the title of this section are found in Zephaniah

3:5 and these will come under review in their own time; we mention the place

where they are found just now, because in the same chapter at verse 16, we

have the exhortation:

'Let not thine hands be slack'.

Again let us be thankful that we are associated with the true Joshua,

of Whom it is written in a sense impossible to any other 'He Faileth Not'.

We have now seen by the testimony of those Hebrew words, words of earth

indeed, but 'purified seven times' (Psa. 12:6), a number of aspects of the

idea of failure, but there are one or two more that must be included before

our survey can be called complete.  Let us quote another passage which will

provide a further illustration of this characteristic quality of the Most

'Nevertheless My lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor

suffer My faithfulness to fail' (Psa. 89:33).

It will be necessary to get some idea of the Psalm itself in which this

passage occurs.  The Psalmist opens with praise to God, especially with

regard to the faithfulness of the Lord.  This is the keynote of the Psalm,

consequently we are not surprised to find emunah 'faithfulness' occurring

seven times (verses 1,2,5,8,24,33 and 49, the last reference where it is

rendered 'in Thy truth').  The faithfulness of the Lord to David, his seed,

and the covenant made with David concerning his throne and seed is the burden