Faithful

The words to that song keep coming to my mind as I try to work. “Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful.” (Find Us Faithful, John Mohr)

I fear faithfulness to the Lordship of Christ in our life on a daily (hourly?) basis is one of the more lacking qualities found in Believers. Of course faithfulness is a result of understanding our relationship to God. Knowing that He has called each  of us from death to life, pre-destined our calling and ministry along with our beginning and our end, understanding that He is by His Spirit empowering every facet of our existence, is the underlying structure on which our faithfulness is built.

Distractions damage our ability to keep a clear focus on why God has chosen us. Jeremiah, the weeping prophet of the Old Testament, is reminded by God  that before he was conceived he was known, set apart, even appointed, to the task for which he was born. We are no different. When that knowledge becomes a reality in our life, faithfulness tends to be increasingly easy.

“May the fires of our devotion light the way. . .” (Ibid)