Blessings

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.    ~  1 Corinthians 4:2

A faithful person will stick with something through thick and thin.  An unfaithful person will quit on something when they no longer feel excited about what they are doing.  Faithfulness must be developed in our lives.  Many of the assignments that God gives us start out with excitement, but after the excitement wears off it’s faithfulness that keeps us going.  Faithfulness keeps us doing what is right because it is right.

Unfaithful people need some kind of feeling to keep them going; they need to feel excited or they’ll quit.  Faithful people only need to know that it is the right thing to be doing to keep them going.  Unfaithful people believe that when the excitement has left something that it is a sign for them to stop doing it.  Faithful people don’t ever stop doing what they’re doing unless they have definite direction from the Lord to stop. 

One thing is for sure, if we’re going to be faithful we can never be led by our emotions.  Make up your mind today that you are going to be a faithful person.  The book of Proverbs tells us that “a faithful person shall abound with blessings!”

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:  And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.   ~  Deuteronomy 28:1,2

Thank God for His blessings!  God truly wants His blessings to overtake us.  That means no matter how fast we’re running we can’t run fast enough to keep ahead of the blessings of God!  These two verses in Deuteronomy reveal the key to walking in God’s blessings…  “if you will hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.” 

The more we listen to and obey God’s voice through His Word and His Spirit, the greater level of blessings we’ll be able to walk in.  So I encourage you to go to great lengths to obey the voice of the LORD this day and throughout the new year!