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21st June 2024
FridayReflection
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'The Bible Says'
Luke 16:10-12
'The faithfulness principle'
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Jesus continues His teaching about money.
He who is faithful in a very little thing will be faithful in much greater things.
And He who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous in much.
The way we live in the everyday mundane, ordinary affairs of life will have a direct impact and a multiplying effect in the responsibilities we will have or not have in the life to come.
By comparison, the things of this life are very little when measured against the much greater things of the New Heaven and the New Earth.
Even the smallest acts of faith and love that serve others demonstrate true greatness, greatness that will be greatly rewarded.
The way we live out the seemingly insignificant moments of our lives is of colossal importance.
The reason for this is because there are no insignificant moments.
Every opportunity, whether obviously big or very little, matters to Jesus.
He who is unrighteous, however, does not have this perspective.
This person does not see the hidden treasure buried in the fields of very little things.
The unrighteous do not understand that the way to gain life is to take up your cross daily and lose your life for His sake,
"For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God."
.... 1 Corinthians 1:18
The point Jesus was making by stating this Faithfulness Principle was that the way believers live this life by faith (faithfully or unrighteously) matters much for the authority they will be entrusted with in the next life
(Revelation 3:21).
Human history is one of war and enslavement.
Our ambitions to gain the world has often been soul-losing to those who seek it, and it has been soul-crushing to the victims.
But Jesus came to restore us to Himself and to recommission us to our original purpose and destiny.
This life is our only opportunity to know and follow God by faith.
It is our one chance to grow and live by faith and thus prove ourselves faithful of much in the life to come.
God owns the world and all the things in it.
If we are not faithful with them, He will not give us partnership with Him in dominions in the New Heaven and Earth.
If the servants of Jesus want to receive their divine reward of the inheritance and partner with God in reigning in joy with Him in the New Heaven and the New Earth, they must live faithfully to Him and strive to follow His commands in all things, including the small, everyday things of life.
His servants are His.
And they will all spend eternity with Him in His presence.
But only those who are faithful to live out the Faithfulness Principle will gain the greatest rewards.
Biblical Text
10 He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful
also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a
very little thing is unrighteous also in much.
11 Therefore if you have not been faithful in the
use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the
true riches to you?
12 And if you have not been faithful in the use of
that which is another's, who will give you that
which is your own?
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