“Many a man claims to have unfailing love,
but a faithful man who can find?”

This particular proverb fell into another category. It asks a question that forces introspection from the reader. When we consider this proverb, we see from God’s perspective as He looks on the sons of men to see ‘if there are any who understand, any who seek God’. The answer, as in Psalm 14, is a mournful one: no one. I believe this proverb along with psalms like Psalm 14 help us to see the need for Jesus to come. For my family, I called it the ‘Longing’ proverb. This ‘longing’ for One to come and fulfill what we cannot, is echoed throughout the Old Testament.

For us, as we considered how Jesus fulfilled this proverb, we were encouraged to think on His unfailing love and on passages like 1 Corinthians 1:9 that spoke of how we are invited to share fellowship with Jesus.

Though the proverb is mournful because Jesus had not yet come, we are filled with joy because He has! He is Wisdom’s Fulfiller and is the fullness of God, Colossians 1:19.

“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

Ephesians 3:17-19

Who can find Him, this Man who is both Faithful and True? Only those who believe in Jesus and call on His name.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

John 3:16