Faithfulness

Saturday, May 30, 2009 (Devotional) -

Some things in life cannot be bought, rushed, or made up. Faithfulness in one of these rarities. By definition, a faithful person is loyal to the exclusion of everything else. Other key traits include

• Devotion
• Reliability
• Consistent
• Worthy of trust

Faithfulness takes time. The only way to demonstrate it is over time, proving to those watching that you indeed are faithful, day after day.

• Timothy proved his faithful character and service to Jesus and Paul Php 2:19-22
• Epaphroditus carried his devotion to serving the people to Phillipi even through his almost-deadly illness Php 2:25-30

Faithfulness usually isn't easy. Being trustworthy even through the hard times is what makes it all the more real.

• Joseph remained trustworthy to God even though he was mistreated, lied about, and imprisoned
• Daniel remained so reliable in his faith to God that his enemies could count on it to trap him and try to kill him
• Jesus was faithful all the way to the cross, where He died to pay for all our sins
• Paul remained faithful to Christ through physical and spiritual trials that would have taken down many other men

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