A faithful God

13 December 2011.

Numbers 12:7 It is not so with My servant Moses! He is faithful in all My house.

As a minister of the Word and Sacrament many people think that there is some extra touch of knowledge on that person about the affairs of God. So they develop teaching programmes about many different aspects of the Christian life, often with the idea that this will help others into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. In many cases this is true, not because of their effective teaching but because Jesus Christ is faithful to His Word and to those who are seeking that deeper relationship with Him.

We serve a faithful God, a God that takes our unworthiness and makes it worthy, that takes our failures and faults and will not hold it against us, He is faithful to us. How do we respond to this? Should we not be faithful to Him in return? When we are filled with images of our own success, we do not have the capacity to view the success that Jesus Christ wants to bring about. In order to be able to see what Jesus Christ wants us to see we need to understand that our worthiness, our righteousness are rags in front of Him, we need to die to our own success in order to allow the success of Jesus Christ to be seen our lives. As Christians we are not called to be successful, but faithful.

Be encouraged today to be faithful to Jesus in every way.

  

David

  

Point to ponder: God is faithful.

Question to consider: Are you faithful to God?