Key verse: 1 Samuel 12:22

Samuel, the prophet-judge of Israel, standing before the nation he had served since childhood, delivered his farewell address.

Nevertheless, it was not truly a farewell speech but rather a transfer of authority and a solemn charge to the people he loved.

He held up a mirror to the nation, inviting them to examine three interconnected realities of faithfulness – human faithfulness, human unfaithfulness and God’s faithfulness.

In the process, we will discover that faithfulness is not merely a moral virtue to be admired but a spiritual dynamic to be entered, a participation in the very faithfulness of God Himself.