It seems this whole week one word keeps coming up in my thoughts...faithful, just be faithful.
In Webster's World Collegiate Dictionary, the word faithful is described as: "keeping faith in what you have committed to, to be consistent and reliable, to have a conviction that requires a sense of duty to what you have given your allegiance to."
Mother Teresa once was quoted: "Be faithful in the small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
In Nehemiah 9:8, the Levite priests stood before Israel, who had been in rebellion for quite some time in the ways of following the Lord, but now were returning and wanting to please this Great God of ours, and spoke in reference to Abraham saying to them: "You (God) found his heart faithful...to You, and made a covenant with him. This covenant gave to Abraham and his descendants the land of Canaan, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites.
And God did as promised, for He alone is called...Faithful."
Sometimes being faithful seems "like a mountain that is almost impossible to cross. Yet, God isn't wanting us to cross great mountains...all at once, He is calling us to be faithful when we wake up in the morning, when we greet our loved ones, how we act at work, and giving Him praise at the end of our day for His faithfulness to us.
Another quote from Mother Teresa that I remember: "If you can't feed 100 people, then just feed one."
Being faithful....one day at a time.
In Webster's World Collegiate Dictionary, the word faithful is described as: "keeping faith in what you have committed to, to be consistent and reliable, to have a conviction that requires a sense of duty to what you have given your allegiance to."
Mother Teresa once was quoted: "Be faithful in the small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
In Nehemiah 9:8, the Levite priests stood before Israel, who had been in rebellion for quite some time in the ways of following the Lord, but now were returning and wanting to please this Great God of ours, and spoke in reference to Abraham saying to them: "You (God) found his heart faithful...to You, and made a covenant with him. This covenant gave to Abraham and his descendants the land of Canaan, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites.
And God did as promised, for He alone is called...Faithful."
Sometimes being faithful seems "like a mountain that is almost impossible to cross. Yet, God isn't wanting us to cross great mountains...all at once, He is calling us to be faithful when we wake up in the morning, when we greet our loved ones, how we act at work, and giving Him praise at the end of our day for His faithfulness to us.
Another quote from Mother Teresa that I remember: "If you can't feed 100 people, then just feed one."
Being faithful....one day at a time.
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