FAITHFULNESS
"HE WHO IS FAITHFUL IN WHAT IS LEAST IS FAITHFUL ALSO IN MUCH; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much."
Luke 16:10 (NKJV)
Faithfulness is required in whatever you are doing, as a believer in Christ Jesus; either in what you are doing for God, or fellow human beings, but much more in the things being done for God: "MOREOVER IT IS REQUIRED IN STEWARDS THAT ONE BE FOUND FAITHFUL" (1 Corinthians 4:2 NKJV).
A believer who is unjust, unfaithful, in what is least, would also be unjust or unfaithful in much (Luke 16:10).
What makes you unfaithful in the little that is committed to your hand, presently, will equally make you unfaithful when much is committed to your hands.
It is always not about the quantity or the amount of what is committed to your hands, but the heart with which you receive the responsibility (1 Peter 5:2-4).
If you did the work or the assignment with a good and right heart, God would definitely reward and honour you.
But If you had a lazy mind, a wrong mentality, you may not qualify to receive any rewards for whatever you may claim that you have laboured for.
God rewards faithfulness! Many people,
including believers, live a hypocritical life. They do things, whatever they are doing, to please men: "FOR DO I NOW PERSUADE MEN, OR GOD? OR DO I SEEK TO PLEASE MEN? FOR IF I STILL PLEASED MEN, I WOULD NOT BE A BONDSERVANT OF CHRIST" (Galatians 1:10 NKJV).
But what such people do forget is, what they do might be hidden to humans but it is definitely not hidden to God: "THEREFORE JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE THE TIME, UNTIL THE LORD COMES, WHO WILL BOTH BRING TO LIGHT THE HIDDEN THINGS OF DARKNESS AND REVEAL THE COUNSELS [motives] OF THE HEARTS. Then each one’s praise will come from God" (1 Corinthians 4:5 NKJV).
Many are given one assignment or the other but they are not faithful in the doing or execution of it.
If I may ask;
• What you are assigned to do in the kingdom; Are you faithful in doing it? Likewise in your secular work; What you are assigned to do there, Are you faithful in doing it?
Wherever you may find yourself, assigned to do one thing or another, make sure that you are faithful in the doing of the assigned work.
• Are you faithful in what you are assigned to do in your local church or the ministry you belong?
• If you are the pioneer or founder of the ministry, Are you faithful in the assignment, building it according to the pattern shown you on the mountain? (Hebrews 8:5)
Remember, you will be rewarded, both here and hereafter, based on your faithfulness.
Are you faithful?
Peace.
