Faithfulness

Faithfulness

By: Robert A. Searles

“A faithful man shall abound with blessings, but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.” Proverbs 28: 20 (KJV)

What does it mean to be faithful? Consider the faithfulness of God and the Lord Jesus Christ. God is so faithful in all that he does and says, that we just take him for granted and expect things always to be as they are. The dictionary says that to be faithful means to be true or trustworthy in the performance of duty, especially in the fulfillment of promises, obligations, vows, and the like. God is faithful. He is true and trustworthy in the performance of his work. Each new day, God our Father causes the sun to rise, right on time. If he didn't, if God ever failed in the performance of his work, we would be terribly upset, and there would be chaos in the universe. God regulates our heart beat and respiration, and keeps it steady. God brings about the change of seasons, right on time. God gives the rain and the sun, and brings forth the harvest at the proper time, so that we might have food. God was faithful to send the Lord Jesus Christ to redeem us. God is faithful to sustain us, and when we see the faithfulness of God all around us, we can be sure that he will be faithful in punishing sin, and in the return to earth of the Lord Jesus Christ. How faithful are we? God gives us the grace to be faithful if we want to be. We have to choose and make choices daily whether or not we want to be faithful in our duties and promises or, if we just want to indulge in pleasure and please ourselves.

It is very easy to pledge ourselves to God and pledge our faithfulness to him when we need his blessing and assistance in something. Maybe one day when we didn't have so much, or we were in trouble, we promised God that we would put him first in our lives. Since then, perhaps, times have changed, and things have become better for us.. Have we been faithful? Perhaps we promised God that we would spend more time in his word, and in a time of quietness before God, and meditate and fellowship with him; but recently God has opened the windows of heaven and poured out blessings upon us, and now we are so busy picking up the blessings that we don't really have the time to be faithful to our promises to love, honor, and serve him. These things ought to follow in this order: - to love God because he first loved us and to be eternally grateful because he gave himself for us. Then, to honor him with our lives, and then comes service.

“Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.” Psalm 101: 6 (KJV)

Don't allow the flesh to tell you what to do. On the contrary, it is the spirit that ought to tell the flesh what to do, even if we don't feel like spending time in God's word or praying, and meditating alone with God, if we will discipline ourselves to please God, God will bless our faithfulness.