Cultivate Faithfulness
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Cultivate Faithfulness
To cultivate something includes more than preparing soil for planting and keeping it weed free. To cultivate also includes the idea of taking great care to improve something by training, practice, study, and refining. All of that is done to promote growth or improvement of some sort. An example is cultivating a taste for music and good literature — or cultivating one’s expertise in a certain work field, so that one truly becomes a caring and knowledgeable expert in that area.
We have but one life to live in this world of many tests and trials. We need to do a lot of cultivating in our one life, to make sure we will enjoy the fruits of heaven. All around us we have the weeds of all sorts of sins, that want to choke the godly life out of us.
Will we tend to our one life and take care of it? Or, will we let sin choke all our common sense out of us? We have a conscience that shows us the distinct difference between right and wrong. We know when things are ungodly — kid yourself not. But, do we defiantly do those ungodly things anyway? Just how willing are we to turn our backs on the truths God Almighty has set before us?
Are we cultivating our lives with the purpose of showing love to our Creator and Redeemer? It’s only right to live lives that cultivate love for our Lord, considering how greatly He has loved us in Jesus Christ.
Every person that has ever lived on this earth has had to live with sin surrounding them. They all have had the choice of either letting sin choke them to eternal death — or of cultivating their faith in all of God’s promises for eternal life. When King David lived, he made sure he paid attention to his spiritual garden, and wrote in Psalm 37:3,
Trust in the LORD, and do good;
Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
We have no choice but to “dwell in the land”, which includes all sorts of sinful temptations and liberal leanings. Although we have to live here, we don’t have to lose our realization and acceptance of God’s truths in this life. So, David tells us to “trust in the LORD, and do good”. We’re in a dangerous place, where we really need to trust all that God has taught us in His holy word. The ways of this world cannot be trusted.
In all this, we need to “cultivate faithfulness“. It’s hard to be faithful when everyone around us is running around in unfaithfulness. We are not to be unfaithful, just because everyone else is doing it. Not everyone is getting to heaven (hint, hint). Do we want to spend eternity in heaven or not? If we do, we need to start cultivating our faithfulness.
Let us not foolishly allow our garden of faith to turn into a bed of ugly, tangled weeds. What we do now to “cultivate faithfulness” will pay big dividends in the end — not to mention make us happy and give us the peace and rest we long for.
With a well cultivated garden of faithfulness, we say, “Hallelujah! LORD, You have given us Your proven promises and salvation to use as tools in cultivating faithfulness. Let our hearts and minds be open to all Your goodness, so that we may grow in faith, hope, and love to Your glory.”
Love,
Margaret
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A Christian devotional to glorify the LORD of lords and God of gods
This is the day which the LORD has made;
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24
The word of the LORD is tried;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
Psalm 18:30
Sing for joy in the LORD, O you righteous ones;
Praise is becoming to the upright.
Psalm 33:1
How blessed are those who dwell in Thy house!
They are ever praising Thee.
Psalm 84:4
Just as a father has compassion on his children,
So the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
Psalm 103:13
Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.
Psalm 107:1
Glory in His holy name;
Let the heart of those who seek the LORD be glad.
Psalm 105:3
Not that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that
I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:12
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