Faithful to a Fault

I like what Joyce Meyer says about faithfulness, “…it’s not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over.”

One of my friends asked me how I can claim to have a blog to show case my writing when I lack faithfulness in keeping up the blog?  Faithfulness should be doing something ‘right’ over and over not just when I feel like it.  I’m so thankful for God’s faithfulness. How great is His faithfulness…all that I have need of His hand has provided; He’s faithful every hour of every day.

There are a lot of quotes about faithfulness that if applied to our daily lives would make living a whole lot easier.  Here are a couple of my favorites. By the way, I collect quotes, some of which are simply floating around in my head.

“Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.” Edwin Louis Cole

“Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to-the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.” William Ames

“God does not require a man to have one talent, three talents, or five talents. He only requires that a man be faithful with whatever he has been given. “ Author Unknown

Our Bible study these past weeks has been on the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5), one of which happens to be ‘faithfulness’.  If we live by the spirit then we should also walk by the spirit.  I definitely need to work on being more faithful.  This does not necessarily mean that I’ll be more prudent in keeping up my blog.  I could promise I will but I probably wouldn’t succeed.  After all, “I am not called to be successful but I am called to be faithful.”  Man, I wish I could take credit for that last line.  Thank you, Mother Teresa for those very wise words.