Don't let the cold keep you away!
Saturday, February 6, 2021
10am-noon
Cornerstone Christian Church, Wyckoff
Upstairs in the Barn (2nd building on the right)
Be Faithful
We will be sharing writing goals today but we're not in a very inspiring season. I have found the beginning of the new year quite disheartening...
- With the pandemic spike, my son's group home is in a renewed lockdown and he's not permitted to leave. The world is reeling from imposed restrictions.
- The confusion and unrest in our country still reverberates from the election - in both political parties.
- Then, of all places to start a new year, I felt the Lord directing me to Ecclesiastes. “Meaningless! Meaningless! …Everything is meaningless.”
- And, perhaps the most devastating, I learned yesterday of yet another Christian leader’s moral failure.
Amid such
desolation and depravity, how am I—how are we—supposed to think about goals? As I
prayed about this I heard one word: Faithful.
Nothing in the
news alters the fact that God is faithful to His people. And nothing excuses us
from being faithful to Him.
The
goals we set are not for our personal progress as much as they are acts of
faithful devotion. We offer them openhandedly, agreeing with Proverbs 16:9 that
we plan our course, but the Lord
establishes our steps. We’ve all experienced God’s redirection, detours, and
scenic diversions. Routes may vary, but what doesn’t change is the expectation that we will be
faithful—to God, to truth, to those He’s put in our lives—and faithful to use
our gifts for Him.
1 Corinthians 4:1
says, “Now it is required that those who have been given a trust
must prove faithful.”
With all that transpires around us, with diverted paths and disappointing delays, we are to be flexible but faithful to what God uniquely, personally puts on our hearts to do.
Take-away thought: We are faithful to God and diligent to pursue the goals He places in our hearts—in that order.
