Why faithfulness still matters…
Jan 8th, 2010 by ljkim
Because you don’t know all the details…how things will turn out. I’m talking about being faithful with good things – things you value for what they are… If you value church and community (I’ll put that up first), then be faithful with it! If you value your work and the talents you’ve been given, then be faithful at using them. If you value something simple like exercise, then be faithful about doing it regularly. But especially when there are good things that you know God wants for you too – be especially faithful with those things! Why? Because you can’t foresee all the benefits of faithfulness before you do it – you can often only see the benefits in hindsight.
Suze Orman tells people in their 20′s, if you save just $100 a month (an amount that anyone around here CAN do), and invest it in something no-brainer like bonds or safe mutual funds… You will have a million dollars by the time you retire. Saving a hundred dollars a month ($3.30 a day) won’t make you FEEL like you’re racking in the big bucks – but it translates into a million dollars at retirement.
But you can KNOW this and yet it will do you ZERO good if you’re not faithful with it. It the same way, spiritual things usually require FAITHFULNESS to really show you what will happen. You can’t feed a baby your dog every OTHER day – you need to feed him every day, at least a couple of times a day – you need to be faithful or else it will get sick, malnourished, or die… Things having to do with a living faith are the same way. Without faithfulness in some things, living faith turns into dead works or traditions.
Just so we’re clear – you don’t get saved and loved by God for being faithful. Jesus was faithful, and therefore you are loved and saved. But faithfulness with small things is still the way God uses to bring good things to you – to train you – to allow you to participate in His work. Does that make sense? How faithful are you? How reliable are you with good things? Perhaps this is something God wants to grow in you this year…
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