how to be faithful
a person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’s mysteries. in this regard, it is expected of managers that each one of them be found faithful.
it is of little importance to me that i should be evaluated by you or by any human court. in fact, i don’t even evaluate myself. for i am not conscious of anything against myself; for i am not justified by this.
The One who evaluates me is The Lord.
1 corinthians 4:3-4
i had read this verse so many times. and loved it.
The One who evaluates me is The Lord.
it doesn’t matter what people think of me.
it only matters what The Lord thinks of me.
only He will evaluate me on the last day.
so nothing else matters.
and that gave me a lot of peace.
but it was all about the peace.
it felt nice to know that God’s opinion was more important than people’s, even mine.
but what i never realized was how serious this thing is to God.
i had never realized that the title before these verses was “The Faithful Manager.”
and i wanted to know why. i wanted to know what being a faithful manager had to do with this.
we should be considered in this way: servants of Christ & managers of God’s mysteries.
& it is expected that each manager should be found faithful.
so what is God looking for here when paul writes about managers needing to be found faithful?
faithful in what? faithful exactly how? faithful is broad.
i read this and knew there was more. i wanted to know what it was.
so i asked. and i kept reading…
it is of little importance to me that i should be evaluated by you or by any human court. in fact, i don’t even evaluate myself. for i am not conscious of anything against myself; for i am not justified by this.
The One who evaluates me is The Lord.
could it be that being found faithful has maybe something, or even everything to do with where you find your approval?
could it be that being found faithful has something or even everything to do with who’s eyes you are living before?
could it be that being a faithful manager is actually all about who you let evaluate you and who’s opinions you let matter to you?
if this is true, it changes everything.
if being found faithful in the eyes of The Lord is correlated to finding your approval and evaluation in Him and only Him, then we’re going to live differently, brothers and sisters.
one of my most passionate cries lately has been, “Lord i just wanna be found faithful!”
and He says, this is how you do it.
start here, He says.
let it be of no importance to you how you are evaluated by humans. don’t even evaluate yourself!
because, beloved, looking to those opinions about you is blatant disbelief in My opinions about you.
because, beloved, when you let the approval of man matter, you are actually cheating on Me.
i wanna be found faithful.
i wanna live before the eyes of One;
before the eyes of Him and Him alone.
this is going to be a process;
but it is one worth taking on.
and i want to invite you into this life change with me.
it will change the way we live.
it will change the way we see ourselves.
and it will please the Lord so much.
oh for Him to see His beloved living in front of His eyes
instead of for the eyes of the world that will only fade away.
just imagine His joy.
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