God’s faithfulness to His people is not the same as our faithfulness to God.
When God is faithful to us:
   He cares for us, He leads us, and He loves us.
When we’re faithful to God it means that we trust that:
   He will care for us, we follow where He leads, and we love Him in return.

Perhaps a sheepdog is a good image of how we should live – following our master faithfully

God, whose voice we long to hear,
and whose presence we yearn to discern,
grant us the patience to endure,
the sensitivity to hear your haunting whisper of love,
and the faithfulness to keep hanging on in there.
Amen.