All of us have made decisions we are proud of and others we regret. Sometimes even our best efforts fall short. One of the best lessons I ever learned about the nature of God was a study of his perfection. God’s perfection renders him incapable of error. He can’t make a mistake (although sloths, spiders, and slithery things might cause a few doubts).

The psalmist wrote that all of God’s work is done in faithfulness. God is always faithfully working in our lives according to his upright, perfect word. We often hear about our need to be faithful to God’s word. How comforting to realize that God is faithful to work according to his word as well!

We can know what God is doing because we can know what God has done. We can know what God wants for our lives because God’s word reveals his will. We can know the high standards God wants for his children because he has made those standards clear. And we can know and trust his grace because story upon story illustrates his character that always leads him to redeem.

When there are decisions that need to be made, we can trust his word is “upright” and true. Even more, we can trust that God is purely and perfectly holy, incapable of ever being anything less. And God has promised to work faithfully in our lives as we yield our free will to his perfect will.

Maybe our greatest gift is that our imperfect decisions can be “remade” by God’s redemption. He makes all things good in his time. The same God who created the world is at work in our lives, creating all we need to live out his plan for our lives. Our will might stand against his for a time, but his redemption will return us to his Plan A or lead us to his redemptive Plan B. Either way, we prosper!

To know God is the beginning of wisdom. You can know God is faithfully working to guide, prosper, and redeem your life according to his perfect plan.