I love clean windows. My kids call me OC which apparently isn’t a good label to have. I call it leadership…just keeping the vision clear.

Scripture

He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house–whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. So we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief. Hebrews 3:2, 5, 12, 19

Observation

What makes a faithful man? You know, the kind who has earned a gold watch and the respect of those who seek his advice not his business card? The answer is locked up in the word “faithful”. He is a man “full of faith”. Because of that he can endure when times are hard, funds are low and tension is high. A faithful man has found a navigation point not on board his rolling vessel; his eyes scan the horizon for the North Star of stability in God to lead him home.

His faithfulness is not fixed on a person, but first on the Lord. People will always disappoint, even those we are called to be faithful to. But when our faith is fixed on the Lord’s purposes in a person we can hang in there longer than we think possible or reasonable. It’s true in marriage or in the marketplace.

When unbelief settles in a man will no longer be faithful. As soon as he loses his faith in God he will also lose grip in difficult days. What does he do when he is offended, or challenged by hardship, misunderstood, mistreated or whatever? If he is not faithful he will become bitter and quit. Endurance is the result of faith that God will eventually come through.

Application

It is a subtle sleight of hand, but I can end up working for man and not the Lord if I’m not careful. Then when appreciation runs low loyalty can dry up. Serving the Lord alone does not necessarily improve conditions but it does help me keep heart. Subservience doesn’t work, just servanthood. I want to serve the Lord as a son and not a slave in the house. I want to be faithful for the right reasons.

Prayer

Father, please do that in Jesus’ name. Amen.