14 Feb Well or Well Done (Because people vastly underestimate what God can do through a lifetime of faithfulness) PART 4
When we first moved to Mt. Juliet, Tennessee we were embarking on quite the faith adventure! We knew absolutely no one! I remember we finally located a building for Joy church to begin. There was another church just leaving this building. I will never forget just how unfaithful the pastor of this other church was to the people he served. This church had grown quite large to about 700 and they had labored for years in building a new building. Just as the church building was close to being finished, this pastor “heard from God” and just up and moved to Los Angeles to “minister to movie stars.” He abandoned his church in the midst of the building program and just up and left.
Needless to say, the church diminished quickly, finances dried up and they could no longer pay for their building. It went into foreclosure and was purchased by Hindus and is a Hindu temple to this day. To make matters worse, this so-called pastor moved him and his wife to California. There in California his wife sadly was diagnosed with cancer. Would you know in the midst of his own wife’s most traumatic time, he left and divorced her…leaving her in her darkest hour!
As a faithful pastor who loves his people he serves…this makes me quite righteously angry. A true shepherd does not run in difficult times (see John 10:11-13)! God wants us to be the antithesis of this pastor! God wants us to be faithful!
Let’s take a look at our key scripture one more time from Matthew 25:21: “His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou has been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou in the joy of the Lord.”
This is a fabulous scripture in context of truly being faithful with the gifts God has given us! It should be the heart cry of every believer to hear “Well done, thou good and faithful servant” …not “Well?”
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