WHEN FAITH ASSASSINATES FAITHFULNESS, ETERNITY DIES (2)
(GREATNESS SERIES WITH DR. BUKOLA WILLIAMS)
Yesterday we started
this series, identifying that faith in spite of it's age-long
significance, if not channeled rightly could paralyze your faithfulness
and spoil your story. I also did state that When your faith means the
failure of another, then be cautious. I bring you a continuation of that
series.
Faith might bring results, but faithfulness brings reward. Your results may amaze people, but when God will come, He comes with reward for your faithfulness and not your faith. It is reward that matter in eternity not results. Some people will accumulate results but will have no single reward because they sacrificed faithfulness on the altars of compromise in the name of faith. "Behold I come and my reward (not result) is with me to give every man according to his works" (Revelations 22:12).
It's unfortunate that faith messages have filled the air and are daily been emitted from pulpits. People are charged about a faith speed that operates on 400km/hr, and so they set out driven by the desperate passions of success and fame, cheating everyone they deal with, looting treasury, stealing people's happiness, promoting fraudulent practices, and acquiring results and amassing wealth, then coming back to testify how the faith message has worked. But in the process, they have rendered many hearts broken, taken food away from the tables of many, put tears on the eyes of many homes, many children have died indirectly from their works/actions, etc. They pay tithe and do charity and philanthropy...but none of these is recognized in Heaven. Their so-called faith assassinated their faithfulness and be-clouded their conscience. God is watching!
When your "faith" punctures your faithfulness, you replace eternal values with earthly valuables, and you are not far from judgment..and Hell. "The life of a man does not depend on the abundance of the things he has"..and so God doesn't see your successes as meaningful when your success story is built on compromised character and flawed integrity. You might be at the peak today, but you are a glorified thief and a celebrated criminal, the end of whom is pity and in the pit. Bread of deceit is sweet, and stolen water so pleasant but in the end, your mouth shall chew gravel. Wealth gotten by vanity shall one day develop wings and fly away.
What is celebrated in most circles as success today are heartbreaks before God. True success is when faith thrives on the fulcrum of faithfulness to produce results which reverberates in eternity as rewards. Are you truly successful or you have illegally and deceptively siphon other people's sweat into sweet for yourself? You are claiming faith has worked for you, but soon God will judge you not on your faith but how faithful you are. "Weldone you FAITHFUL servant.." (Matthew 25:21). Are you faithful or a "faith-fool"?
*TO BE CONCLUDED TOMORROW
(You can also read this and other Greatness Series by the author by logging into drwilliamsbukola.blogspot.com. Or, visit www.treasuredhouse.org)
Faith might bring results, but faithfulness brings reward. Your results may amaze people, but when God will come, He comes with reward for your faithfulness and not your faith. It is reward that matter in eternity not results. Some people will accumulate results but will have no single reward because they sacrificed faithfulness on the altars of compromise in the name of faith. "Behold I come and my reward (not result) is with me to give every man according to his works" (Revelations 22:12).
It's unfortunate that faith messages have filled the air and are daily been emitted from pulpits. People are charged about a faith speed that operates on 400km/hr, and so they set out driven by the desperate passions of success and fame, cheating everyone they deal with, looting treasury, stealing people's happiness, promoting fraudulent practices, and acquiring results and amassing wealth, then coming back to testify how the faith message has worked. But in the process, they have rendered many hearts broken, taken food away from the tables of many, put tears on the eyes of many homes, many children have died indirectly from their works/actions, etc. They pay tithe and do charity and philanthropy...but none of these is recognized in Heaven. Their so-called faith assassinated their faithfulness and be-clouded their conscience. God is watching!
When your "faith" punctures your faithfulness, you replace eternal values with earthly valuables, and you are not far from judgment..and Hell. "The life of a man does not depend on the abundance of the things he has"..and so God doesn't see your successes as meaningful when your success story is built on compromised character and flawed integrity. You might be at the peak today, but you are a glorified thief and a celebrated criminal, the end of whom is pity and in the pit. Bread of deceit is sweet, and stolen water so pleasant but in the end, your mouth shall chew gravel. Wealth gotten by vanity shall one day develop wings and fly away.
What is celebrated in most circles as success today are heartbreaks before God. True success is when faith thrives on the fulcrum of faithfulness to produce results which reverberates in eternity as rewards. Are you truly successful or you have illegally and deceptively siphon other people's sweat into sweet for yourself? You are claiming faith has worked for you, but soon God will judge you not on your faith but how faithful you are. "Weldone you FAITHFUL servant.." (Matthew 25:21). Are you faithful or a "faith-fool"?
*TO BE CONCLUDED TOMORROW
(You can also read this and other Greatness Series by the author by logging into drwilliamsbukola.blogspot.com. Or, visit www.treasuredhouse.org)
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