Because of certain events that have happened over the last few months I’ve come to think about faithfulness differently. The question, what does it mean to be faithful, has started to produce different answers. In the past I considered faithfulness to be linked to a point in the future. Being faithful insured that what happened in the future would be what I desired. That might be going to heaven or things working out the way I want them to. Whatever the case faithfulness was determined by the results it produced.

I now see things differently. Faithfulness is about here and now. The question, what must I do to be faithful in this moment, should be what determines my action? What results from this faithfulness is not my concern. God will do with it what he will. Things may work out the way I want them to or they may not but how things work out is not the issue. Being faithful in this moment at this time is the issue. If I am faithful here and now the results of that faithfulness are Gods responsibilities not mine. I’m free from the fear of the future and the fear of failure as long as I am faithful in this moment.