Faithful in What He Givs Us

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. (Mat 25:21)

Above all, the Lord is looking for faithfulness in our being and faithfulness in our doing with regard to the things that He has given us, not what things we conjure up out of ourselves. Whatever He bestows upon us is not for our safekeeping but to be multiplied and presented back in full to Him. This Multiplication is not for our own kingdom building plans, but dying to ambition of the self and having only His Kingdom in mind. Bearing fruit of which is of Him not that which represent us (Gal 5:22).

Keep good accounts of what He bestows, we mustn’t be careless. Work out what He has put in (Php 2:13), to the degree we have attained, walk by them (Php 3:16). Live in constant urgency, looking for His coming as though it is the next moment. Yet living each day faithfully, in patient endurance in all that life will throw at us though it is ‘after a long time’ (Matt 25:19). Don’t let go of what He gave, but multiply. Add on; faith, to faith virtue, etc (2 Pet 1:5). Faith without working it out is dead.

The Lord will do the accounting, it is faithfulness He desires.  Faithful only in what He gave, anything else extra is not credited. The end of faithfulness is to enter into His Joy and greater rule. Count all else loss, take on what He gives. Rule or take action over the ‘very little’ (Luke 19:17) He gives to us, in that He will multiply it back to us.