“Living Among the Giants”
TOPIC:“The Man Who Was Always Faithful”
“forasmuch as he was faithful”
In the last letter written to Vance Havner, famous Bible teacher of the 20th century, by his wife on the day she entered the hospital, she wrote: “You have always been so faithful.” Vance Havner later wrote: “I'd rather have that line than anything else she could have written.” Hear it again: “You have always been so faithful.” What a magnificent compliment to be given to any husband, let alone any wife or any Christian. We happen to live, I believe, in a very unfaithful world. Husbands are unfaithful to their wives. Wives are unfaithful to their husbands. Believers are unfaithful to their churches and their responsibilities in those churches.
Is it any wonder, then, that God not only DESIRES, but He ADMIRES this virtue in those of us who claim to be His disciples. Faithfulness, this old fashioned loyalty, is the one requirement which believers will both be praised and rewarded for by God. Listen to what the supreme Judge will one day say: “Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou has been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord” (Matthew 25:21).
The Apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians: “But the Lord is faithful” (II Thessalonians 3:3), and this same God wants us to be faithful as Paul declared to the Corinthians: “It is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful” (I Corinthians 4:2). The NIV has it: "It is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful." Daniel is an inspiring example of living a faithful life in a sinful world. For seventy years he faithfully served God in a hostile, heathen, foreign land without compromising his faith and without worrying about the consequences. Let us now take a closer look at the faithfulness of this man Daniel.
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