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About being faithful and faithless…
1 Corinthians 4:2 Now it is required that those who have been given a
trust must prove faithful. (NIV)
Every coin has two sides. When a rare coin dealer looks at a rare coin to
determine the coin’s value, the coin dealer looks at both sides of the coin.
Likewise, sometimes it is helpful to look at the opposite side of our
relationship with God and with others. In this moment, we want to look at what
it means to be faithless to help us get a better perspective on what it means to
be faithful. Obviously, to be faithless is the opposite of being faithful. When
people are faithless, it means they were not honest about keeping their word or
keeping an oath once taken. When people are faithless, their intent to be loyal
can be blown away in a mere wisp of the wind. When people are faithless it means
they are unreliable and cannot be depended upon. When a person cannot keep to
principles and purposes, even when they are assigned a task, they cannot keep to
the assignment because they are not able to be faithful. People who are
faithless are people who are unbelieving for they have nothing to believe in.
They have no inner set of constructs upon which to grasp. When the faithless
person has no inner set of constructs upon which to grasp and no conscience or
yardstick to measure the righteousness or unrighteousness of an act, chaos
follows the person. When a person is faithless, it means they are capable of
treacherous acts that betray a trust in them. Even the smallest seed of faith,
even the tiniest of the tiniest amount of faith, turns the faithless into the
faithful.
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