Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 11 December 2022

TOPIC: Faithfulness: A Kingdom Requirement

 

READ: Mark 10:28-31(NKJV)
28 Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel
 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

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listened carefully as my friend explained why he was relieving his personal driver of his job. “He is so unfaithful”, he said. “He cheats even when you give him money to put petrol in the car.” He went on to talk about other experiences he had with the driver. As humans, we expect faithfulness: In marriage people do not expect their spouses to cheat; employers expect their employees to be faithful; in general, individuals expect faithfulness from those around them.

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It is interesting to note that we expect this from others, even when we are not faithful ourselves. The weightier matter is that God expects faithfulness from us too. As a matter of fact, faithfulness is not just an expectation of God from us; it is a “requirement” (v.2). It is “required in stewards that one be found faithful.” We are stewards of God’s grace; we are stewards of God’s mercy; we are stewards of God’s gifts and talents. We must not administer them as if everything ends with us.

Faithfulness is a requirement in kingdom service. Are you faithful in what God has committed into your hands? Whether it is human or material resources, God will require us to give account eventually to Him how we faired. He will not necessarily reward quantity of work; He will reward faithfulness in how you serve. Remember it is not men that will judge you; He who judges is the Lord (v.4).

PRAYER: O for a heart to be faithful, O Lord.

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