I have been challenged a lot about faithfulness in recent days.
I have had occasion to watch gifted people make life choices based on their inability to understand the blessings associated with faithfulness.
FAITHFULNESS is doing the COMMON things CONSISTENTLY with a COMMITMENT that transcends CONVENIENCE.
In other words faithfulness is being committed to doing the basic things consistently whether there is immediate reward or recognition.
Emptying the bin in the kitchen on a daily basis.
Being on time at musicians practice.
Loving your friends even when they are behaving badly.
Giving to the cause through the tough times.
Being committed to the wife of your youth as the years roll by.
FAITHFULNESS has never been about you – it is always about others and the things you have promised to do for them.
That is why faithfulness is the foundation upon which everything you do will ultimately be judged by God.
To be a faithful person you must learn and grow in faithfulness in three areas.
1. FAITHFUL to the gifts and calling God has placed within you.
2. FAITHFUL to the relationships God has placed you in.
3. FAITHFUL to the promises and commitments you make.
Until you learn to be faithful in these three areas you will at best be one of the following.
1. A drifting gifting.
2. A self focussed island.
3. An unstable ego.
Consider again the commendation by God for each one of us when we reach his eternal Kingdom.
Well – Done – Good – Faithful – Servant.
Everything in God’s commendation is connected to your ability to be faithful.
Once you learn this – God will promote you.
Steve Penny
