The obvious definition of faithful is “full of faith.†That includes keeping faith, being worthy of trust; honest; loyal; having steadfast adherence and undeviating allegiance. Another way of saying this is simply, doing what you said you would do; keeping your word. Faithfulness is a fruit of the Spirit so let’s look at some of the Scriptures that will help us understand faithfulness. We serve a faithful God, we are to have faith in Him, and He is the One who gives and sustains our faith, and He is the beginning and end of our faith.
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. Continue reading ‘The Faithful Wife’
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One of the things I enjoy about American holidays is the unity you see in grocery stores all across America. It’s the fourth of July! Everyone (virtually) is going to throw some burgers and/or hot dogs on the grill (or maybe down south they fry up some chicken). Everyone is going to make ice cream. It’s just impossible to do anything else. I know this is true because yesterday when I dashed into the grocery store, they were out of rock salt, and the sugar aisle looked as though it had been looted. I love this about America. The end of November we all buy our turkeys and dressing, but on the Fourth, we are Continue reading ‘Happy July 4th’
“I also saw that it was ot my good feelings that made my righteousness better, and that my bad feelings did not make my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ Himself, ‘the same yesterday, and today, and forever’ (Heb. 13:8).”
“I saw that all those graces of God that belonged to me but which I showed so little, were like those few coins that rich men used to carry in their purses while their gold was in their trunks at home. I saw that my gold was in my trunk at home — in Christ, my Lord and Savior. Now Christ was all –all my righteousness, all my sanctification, and all my redemption.”–John Bunyan in Grace Abounding
vs. 9 “Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy son’s sons. ”
vs. 15 “Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves…”
 vs. 23 “Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God…”
bs. 40 “Thou shalt keep therefore his statues, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.”
Shall not a Christian account it an unchristianlike spirit to be overmuch dejected by any affliction whatsoever? I remember someone compares murmuring spirits to children, when they are weaning: what a great deal of stir you have with your children when you wean them! How perverse and vexing they are! So, when God would wean you from some outward comforts in this world, oh, how fretting and discontented you are! Children will not sleep themselves nor let their mothers sleep when they are weaning; and so, when God would wean us from the world, and we fret, vex, and murmur, this is a childish spirit.
–Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
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