Hebrews 3:2
Jesus was faithful to God--but notice here. The author says Jesus was faithful, "just as Moses was faithful."
Do those two compare?
We're used to not measuring up to the life of Jesus. We think: Oh, I could never be that righteous. Oh, I could never be that good. And we're right, of course.
The funny thing about faithfulness is, it's completely scalable. (in drafting terms!) You're either righteous or you're not righteous; you can't be just a little bit righteous. Either you're loving or you're not; you can't be halfway loving. You're either truthful or you're not truthful--there's no halfway!
Faithfulness is different. You can be faithful in little things the same as you can be faithful in big things, and that's all God expects from us. He never says we have to have as much faith as Moses did or as Jesus did, because it's not about an amount. We have to have a common faith with Jesus and with Moses: a faith in God. For us, a faith in Christ.
Jesus told about the servants with the talents of gold. The master gave to one servant some enormous sum of cash and told him to take care of it, then he gave the next servant a smaller sum, then to the last servant he gave a much smaller sum of cash. All he asked was that these men take care of the money he'd entrusted to them.
The man with the huge sum was faithful with his master's money--but notice, so was the man with less money. It was the servant that gave up that was counted for loss...
I don't know about you, but I don't have the strength of Moses or the courage of Peter or the love of John, and I doubt I ever will. These men were amazing men of faith.
But the faith they had is our faith, too, and our faithfulness in it is just as valid, just as important to God as was theirs. Even if I'm just being faithful to God by serving a cup of water while Peter's up there preaching up a storm, I'm still being faithful.
If the author of Hebrews had known me, would he have written: "Jesus was faithful to God, just like Jonathan is"? Would he have written that about you?
At the end of the day, it's not about how many souls you've brought to Christ or about how many churches you've planted or even about how much glory you've brought to God's name that day. At the end of the day, what matters to God is that you've listened for His guidance in your life, that you've counted the things He's given you as His and not yours, that you've trusted in Him to get you through the day. He's made some to be apostles and some to be prophets, sure. But He's also made some to be ushers and some to be janitors and some to be mothers.
I don't have to be making water come out of rocks to be faithful. I just have to be looking for God's will in my own life, and striving for it.
Let's strive to be God's servants today, to take care of the things He's given us, to think of Him more than we think of those things. Let's strive to be faithful, just as Jesus was faithful.
Do those two compare?
We're used to not measuring up to the life of Jesus. We think: Oh, I could never be that righteous. Oh, I could never be that good. And we're right, of course.
The funny thing about faithfulness is, it's completely scalable. (in drafting terms!) You're either righteous or you're not righteous; you can't be just a little bit righteous. Either you're loving or you're not; you can't be halfway loving. You're either truthful or you're not truthful--there's no halfway!
Faithfulness is different. You can be faithful in little things the same as you can be faithful in big things, and that's all God expects from us. He never says we have to have as much faith as Moses did or as Jesus did, because it's not about an amount. We have to have a common faith with Jesus and with Moses: a faith in God. For us, a faith in Christ.
Jesus told about the servants with the talents of gold. The master gave to one servant some enormous sum of cash and told him to take care of it, then he gave the next servant a smaller sum, then to the last servant he gave a much smaller sum of cash. All he asked was that these men take care of the money he'd entrusted to them.
The man with the huge sum was faithful with his master's money--but notice, so was the man with less money. It was the servant that gave up that was counted for loss...
I don't know about you, but I don't have the strength of Moses or the courage of Peter or the love of John, and I doubt I ever will. These men were amazing men of faith.
But the faith they had is our faith, too, and our faithfulness in it is just as valid, just as important to God as was theirs. Even if I'm just being faithful to God by serving a cup of water while Peter's up there preaching up a storm, I'm still being faithful.
If the author of Hebrews had known me, would he have written: "Jesus was faithful to God, just like Jonathan is"? Would he have written that about you?
At the end of the day, it's not about how many souls you've brought to Christ or about how many churches you've planted or even about how much glory you've brought to God's name that day. At the end of the day, what matters to God is that you've listened for His guidance in your life, that you've counted the things He's given you as His and not yours, that you've trusted in Him to get you through the day. He's made some to be apostles and some to be prophets, sure. But He's also made some to be ushers and some to be janitors and some to be mothers.
I don't have to be making water come out of rocks to be faithful. I just have to be looking for God's will in my own life, and striving for it.
Let's strive to be God's servants today, to take care of the things He's given us, to think of Him more than we think of those things. Let's strive to be faithful, just as Jesus was faithful.
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