Psalm 18:1-2 I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

As I read this Psalm this morning I came to realize that the only part in which I have any control is in my will to love and my will to trust. Everything else is classified as a dependency. I can declare all the other things not because of who I am or what I have done, but rather who God is and what He has done.

As I think about it, love and trust have been provided by God but rather than a dependency they are reciprocal forces.

1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

Psalm 66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

In the end we are totally dependent upon God for everything and in return He asks only that we trust in the love that He has placed in us.

John 17:23  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

1 John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

1 John 4:16-18 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

He is called Faithful. He is called True.

The significance here is a positional comparative. If you recall Jesus declared Himself to be the Way, the Truth and the Life. When He said that in John 14:6 He had not as yet gone to His Cross, He had not died, was yet to be resurrected and most assuredly had not taken His place at the right hand throne of God.

Here in Revelation 19:1 the only thing that remains consistent and unchanged in this before and after picture is Truth. He no longer sits on the right hand throne, He is no longer our intercessor, He is no longer our priest, and now has come as King. He has already collected His church age bride.

Does the name change indicate anything? What does it mean that He had not been declared to be Faithful until He mounts up to return? It is simply this, He isn’t finished being faithful. He does not take on the name until He is finished doing all that He has promised to do. The fact that He will take that name should be reassuring to you and me. Reassuring because if we have not yet seen those promises come to pass for us yet, they are waiting on us with the only assurance we can ever trust. God Himself made those promises and God is not a liar.

I’ve seen enough of His promises come true in my life to rest assured that I will not be disappointed for the rest. I may be impatient, but He is not. His patience is part of His faithfulness. If He were not, then I should have cause to worry because I do not deserve the grace and mercy extended to me thus far. Since I am not through making mistakes, then His patience with me is still required.