By Pastor Dr. Aggrey Soyekwo
Luke 16:10-12 “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?" - NIV
We live in a world in which faithfulness is becoming so scarce, even among professing Christian believers on whom such a virtue is expected to be the norm! One of God’s key characteristics is faithfulness. God is faithfully true to His promises. He never falls short of what He commited to do. He is moulding us into His character and expects us to be like Him. But He starts by entrusting us with little.
Life and all that we have is a trust. God gave it to us so that we use it to bless others. We don’t only live for ourselves. One way or another, some people’s lives depend on ours and we too depend on them. That means whatever we have is NOT entirely our own. We hold it in trust for others by God’s design. But because of corrupted mindsets, people selfishly focus more on themselves.
Jesus taught that our faithfulness is tested by the little things of life. How we handle that determines whether we can be trusted with bigger things. Some think, ‘it’s just a small amount I diverted, just alittle this or that I misused.’ They even laugh it off as a minor thing. God’s principle is that if you were unfaithful in that little, you can as well be unfaithful in much. No one steals colossal sums of money, for example, from nowhere. It began with little ‘stealings’ here and there. This applies to all aspects of lifes’ trust. Learn to be faithful even in the little and you will be trusted with much. It takes a deliberate effort to do so. God is willing to help us all be faithful.
1 Thessalonians 5:24 "The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it."
Shalom children of God.