Unconditional Faithfulness
27TH NOVEMBER 2024
“Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised.” [Romans 4:21 AMPC]
Jesus is our perfect example of leadership; He displayed His light so brilliantly that the world still benefits from it. One of the many things which marked His great influence as a leader is faithfulness. Jesus is still in fact the light of the world because He kept His word. When God utters a word, He then watches over that word to perform it and ensure that the word does not come back to Him void without fulfilling what it has been sent to do. Jesus is the exact expression of the Father, therefore, by extension, Jesus is also a keeper of His word. Jesus was faithful even to the point of death.
To be faithful means to be true to your word. Elaborately, this means that your intent, your word and the sequential action must be on the same plain. Faithfulness is less to do with faith and more to do with the measure of one’s reliability. Our lights cannot shine without an attitude or quality of a faithful person. A Christian who does not develop the character of faithfulness is one who experiences stunted growth in their Christian lives.
The call to let our lights shine as believers is a call to consistently be a person of your word ,that by your character people will see the consistency with which your lights shine and inevitably give glory to God.
In professing to be Christians, we have consequently become betrothed to a man — Christ. To ensure that our groom keeps His word and comes back for us, He has left us with a seal — the Holy Spirit. If our groom displays such high levels of faithfulness then the bride — us — must also stay true and faithful, keeping ourselves pure until such a day as our groom returns. If we believe that Jesus is faithful, we must also commit to living a life of faithfulness. This is expressed in a life intentionally and faithfully lived devoid of sin or refusing to live a double life. Our power of influence lies in how true our lives correlate to what (or Whom) we profess. God’s faithfulness to His word can be seen as far back as creation when He spoke the elements of life as we know it into existence. God spoke and creation did exactly what He said because God was committed to His word.
When God calls us, He calls us onto something; there is a certain agenda which needs to be fulfilled. When God calls us to Himself as believers or His children, we are being called to the agenda of faith, righteousness, holiness and purity. When Christ comes, this is what He expects us to be true to. We become unfaithful if He meets us doing anything else! God has called us to a righteous life in secret and in public. Be faithful to this to the end!
Prayer: Father, we desire to be faithful till the end. Thank you that by the power of Your Spirit, faithfulness and consistency will be our hallmark until the very end. In Jesus name. Amen.
Further reading: Hebrews 10:23b // Luke 1:37
