Friday Fruit–Faithfulness

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)

 

 

What does faithfulness mean? I think it speaks of honesty, commitment, and doing the right thing in the face of the easy way out.

We are told in Scriptures that God is faithful:

• Faithful to forgive the repentant (1 John 1:8-10)
• Faithful to help us overcome temptation (1 Corinthians 10:13)
• Faithful in His presence (Hebrews 13:5)
• Faithful in understanding our weakness (Hebrews 4:14-16)

Our response needs to be to build our own faithfulness:

• We need to be faithful with our talents and wealth and time. (Matthew 25:21)
• We need to be faithful in our beliefs, even unto death. (Revelation 2:10b)
• We need to be faithful in our religious attendance.    (Hebrews 10:25)
• We need to be faithful in our ministry.
• We need to be faithful in our dealings with others.

“from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked” Luke 12:48

“With great power, comes great responsibility”
Spiderman

 

 

I just want to be a FISH

I have never been one for New Years Resolutions.  If something is worth doing, there’s no reason to wait until an arbitrary date on the calendar.  I just do it. (Or don’t )

Apparently Alece over at Grit and Glory feels the same way.  She has a project called….

Go over here and learn more.

So I am choosing my One Word for 2011, and I am going to cheat. (Twice)

The word is….

FISH

• Cheat 1 : FISH is short for Faithful In Serving HIM.  So it is actually 4 words.
• Cheat 2 : Since it is the reason I call myself Sharkbait, I suppose it has been my theme for a long time.

But I don’t really feel like I got it right yet.  So I will keep trying;  Keep striving; Keep aiming to be

Faithful In Serving Him.

What about you?  What’s your One Word for 2011?