With only a few days before going offline, I searched for my next devotional and found this one from Vance K. Jackson titled Be Faithful In The Little Things through Bible.com plans. This devotional is only 3 days and is a powerful one for us to use in preparation for what is coming our way. This devotional will help us “pattern ourselves after Christ in every area of our life.” You can probably tell from the title but the direction of this devotional will be to be faithful as the intro puts it:
Be Faithful In The Little Things
Scripture from today’s devotional:
‘ “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. ‘
Luke 16:10
God’s Word is so powerful and it always amazes me how God is able to speak right into our very situation through one verse of a paragraph. Let’s grab hold of what God is telling us today!
Let’s be the dads who can be trusted with very little! Let’s be the dads who can be trusted with much! Let’s be the dads who choose to live honestly!
Let’s be the dads who realize that what we have been given belongs to God and that we are to be good stewards of it! Let’s be the dads be it little or much, and know that we are to be good stewards because it belongs to God! Many people are tested to see how they will manage their resources and money, and we are warned in God’s Word how the love of money is the root of all evil! Not that money is evil but that the heart, our heart is the key be it loving money or being generous with money! Compare:
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
— 1 Timothy 6:10
and
Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
— 2 Corinthians 9:7
It’s a matter of the heart! So let’s choose to be good stewards! Let’s be the dads who no matter how much or how little we are given, steward it for the glory of God!
Today’s devotional has been provided by Vance K. Jackson.
Reading through today’s devotional, here are some takeaways for me: (check out the devotional on your own too to see if you pick up other nuggets, and please share your findings in the comments)
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Takeaways from Today’s Devotional:
“Be Faithful In The Little Things.“
- Let’s be the dads who turn to God and His Word first when we are facing a challenge, an opportunity, and a decision!
- God’s Word today using the King James Version says:
- Let’s be the dads who consider how Jesus lived and pattern our lives after Him!
- Let’s be the dads who look to Jesus and are sensitive to the Holy Spirit so that we can be faithful to God’s provision, instruction, direction, and correction!
- Today’s devotional calls us to be faithful in the following ways:
- Let’s be the dads who are faithful over everything and anything that God gives us and puts into our hands and lives!
- Let’s be the dads who can be faithful with little things!
- Let’s be the dads who can be faithful with the assignments we are given!
- Let’s be the dads who can be faithful with the resources under our stewardship!
- Let’s be the dads who can be faithful with our jobs!
- Let’s be the dads who can be faithful with our business!
- Let’s be the dads who can be faithful wth our families!
- Let’s be the dads who can be faithful with God’s blessings!
- Let’s be the dads who choose to be faithful to God and trusting His plans and purposes for our lives!
- God’s Word using the Amplified Classic edition puts today’s scripture this way:
- “He who is faithful in a very little [thing] is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest and unjust in a very little [thing] is dishonest and unjust also in much.”
Luke 16:10 AMPC
- “He who is faithful in a very little [thing] is faithful also in much, and he who is dishonest and unjust in a very little [thing] is dishonest and unjust also in much.”
- Let’s be the dads who God can trust with the small things!
- Let’s be the dads who God can trust with the seemingly small assignments!
- Let’s be the dads who God can lead the work of our hands!
- Let’s be the dads who have good habits!
- Let’s be the dads who have good character!
- Let’s be the dads who walk in alignment with God‘s purposes and plans!
- Let’s be the dads who choose to live for God because we trust God’s plan for our lives, giving us a hope and future!
- Let’s be the dads who choose to live for God because we trust God’s purpose for our lives that is for good and not for evil, so that we can have a hope and a future!
- Today’s devotional closes going back to today’s scripture but this time using the New Living Translation, so let’s read it and grab hold of what our devotional is telling us today!
- “Look at this leadership principle in Luke 16:10 NLT, “If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities.” Maybe, you’re not being promoted because you’re not faithful in the small things. Maybe, you’re not advancing because you’re not diligent in the small things. Maybe, God has not expanded your borders because you can’t be trusted in private. Choose to be faithful over the little and God will set you over much.”