Are We being Faithful?

We live in a world that so often challenges us to “be better, be thinner, be smarter, be famous, be rich, or to just be something.” 

Honestly, there is nothing wrong with being these things, but when you dive into scripture to see what God requires of us, those things are not listed as things our Heavenly Father tells us to be. The world urges us to be “more” of so many things; and yet the Lord longs for us to Just Be Faithful. Psalm 37:3 (NASB) says, “Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.”

Over the years, I feel faithfulness is an area the Lord has had to teach and reteach me. I long to be faithful (loyal, steadfast, and devoted) in the place that He has me, but so often I have found myself looking at other people and where they were or what they were doing, and I would try to speed up the season that I was in.

Even today, it is still a struggle as I try to open certain doors or make something happen that's not in the Lord’s timing. The Lord so often has to call me back to the place that He has me in that moment and gently nudge my heart to “Just Be Faithful.”  God calls us to be faithful where He's placed us right now and trust Him in the waiting.

Back in my season of singleness, my frustration and loneliness would often take over and I would pine over my situation. Yet, I’m so thankful that through His Word, the Lord would always remind me to Just Be Faithful and trust Him. I longed to be married with a family, but He had a purpose in that season of life and needed me to remain faithful where I was, and to trust, love and serve Him regardless of my situation.

Then in my season of marriage and infertility, when again the longing of my heart to be a mommy often paralyzed me, through His Word, He continued to remind me to Just Be Faithful; be faithful to seek Him, faithful to serve, and faithful to lay my burdens at His feet, because He is faithful. (Psalm 33:4-For the Word of the Lord is right and true; He is faithful in all He does.)

In reality, faithful is just being “full of faith.” Faith that He is working. Faith that He is trustworthy. Faith that He knows the plans He has for us without us having to speed up the situation or take circumstances into our own! (That didn’t necessarily work so great for Sarah and Abraham)

In all of my longings for something more in my life, He consistently reminds me that He is so much more than I need. That He is cultivating a trust in Him that would forever be needed and a faithfulness to stand in a world that urges us to walk in fear and not in faith.

I pray that you and I can learn to Be Faithful in our daily moments; the moments that seem mundane and unimportant; the moments when we wonder if we are making a difference in this world.

I often wonder how Joseph felt as he sat in prison…did he wonder if he was making a difference in the world? Did he fear the unknown? I don’t know how he felt, but I do know that he continued to Be Faithful to the Lord despite his circumstances, and in those moments of uncertainty, the Lord was cultivating a strong faith and a strong leader.

Proverbs 3:3 says, “Let love and faithfulness never leave you. Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”

My prayer for all of us is that we will seek to Just Be Faithful in our everyday moments. That love and faithfulness will be bound around our necks and written on the tablets of our hearts. That in the moments that are hard and uncertain and fearful that we will seek to look to our Father and JUST BE FAITHFUL. 

Just be Faithful to love Him.

Just be Faithful to trust Him.

Just be Faithful to seek Him.

Just be Faithful to serve Him.

JUST BE FAITHFUL