Bullets for the Battle

The Bullet of Faithfulness: Measuring Faithfulness

All of us seem to be filled with self-righteous irritation when people or things we depend on are unfaithful to us. Let me ask you a few questions and please answer honestly:

1. If your car starts one out of three times, do you consider it dependable or faithful?
2. If your paper boy regularly skips leaving two editions a week would you call him faithful?
3. If you failed to go to work three or four days a month, would your employer consider you dependable or faithful?
4. If your refrigerator quits for a day now and then, do you excuse it and say, “Oh, well, I can depend on it most of the time?”
5. If your water heater greets you with cold water instead of hot, one out of two mornings, would it be dependable or faithful?
6. If you miss a couple of mortgage payments each year would your mortgage holder say, “That’s okay, ten out of twelve isn’t too bad?”
   
   Faithfulness means just that. Dependability which is consistent and without excuse! How does the Father view your faithfulness toward His gifts with which you have been trusted … your time, your church, your money, your responsibilities and your opportunities to give?
   
   “In this case, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy.” (I Corinthians 4:2)