Our Faithfulness To God

The Bible is a manual for living, and one of the things this manual tells us to live by is faithfulness. Across scripture, we can see how God is a faithful God; His name is Faithful. Hence, being in God's image, we ought to imitate God's Faithful nature.

Life Of Faithfulness

Across scriptures, we have people who lived a life of Faithfulness; from Noah down to the prophets to the Apostles. But from them all, we'll examine just one person which is Father Abraham. Abraham lived a life of faithfulness. As faithfulness implies one being loyal, committed, etc. Father Abraham was loyal to God's Word. We know how from Gen 12 God instructed Abraham to leave his family and country for a land which he was going to show him.

Genesis 12:1,4

1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Abraham after the Lord instructed him, carried out the instruction immediately! "Delayed obedience is total disobedience"

Let's examine Genesis 22:1

1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

Now most theologians have explained that God does not tempt using:

James 1:13 says “ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”

But when you read contextually you would see what James started, he said GOD DOES NOT TEMPT WITH EVIL (Sickness, bad situations, etc) but God tests our loyalty.

The test of Abraham was truly grievous because he had waited upon the Lord for a child and now God is telling him to go offer that same child. If Abraham had to act sensual he would have said, God has bipolar disorder. Looking at Abraham's response gave us a headline that he was loyal and faithful to God!

Genesis 22: 7-10 says
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

We are to note two things which are; that his words were filled with faith despite the situation (Abraham said, "God will provide"). Also, the Lord said he didn't withhold HIS ONLY SON! It takes a lot of loyalty of someone to give another person the only thing that he or she cherishes.

Faithfulness will cost us! In faithfulness, we will have many other options, but if God was faithful to us by not holding back his only Son then our only value should be able to go for his course because it's a two-way side relationship; God will demand our faithfulness. He would test us and every time we pass those tests, we get into another phase in our walk with God!

Conclusively, it is important to note that "faithfulness is the currency of our walk with God"

ACTION POINTS

Pray that the Lord will help you to be faithful. He should help you follow His will and may you not have anything that you can't give to the Lord (Amen).