If His Faithfulness...

August 14

We have established (see the August 3rd entry) that loyalty and honesty are among those virtuous characteristics that man esteems most highly in his friends. We who know our frame are aware that these attributes are rarely found to great degree in those who walk in a tabernacle of flesh.

Our inclination is to shroud truth in enough confusion to allow ourselves ‘latitude,’ to give ourselves ‘wiggle-room,’ if the need arises to alter our position, or modify our commitment. We use the ‘smoke screen’ to conceal our views so they can be changed to suit our ends without our appearing to have done so. Politicians are particularly masterful at this device.

Yet this is not the way our God and Savior would have us to govern ourselves. He would have our word to be unshakable; it is to be a bond that secures us to our stated position and our stated position is to be based in our knowledge of Jesus and His righteousness.

Stated concisely, our words and actions should always be rooted in what Jesus Himself would do in our place. If His faithfulness is the foundation for our interaction with other people, we will reflect the faithfulness of God, the One who has, “…called you to fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ who is faithful,” I Corinthians 1:9.