Faithfulness

I was listening to Genesis 24 when I was woken up with the great realization about honor.

I don’t know whether you realize the extent of this man’s trustworthiness.

Here is a slave completely entrusted with everything his master possessed. Then he is given an assignment to a far country; with all the freedom and anything he wanted for that assignment.

Do you realize that he was for all pretexts free had he chosen it?

Imagine it like this.

You are a slave, incidentally a slave is property with no rights except what the owner offers. And of course there is no clause in slavery offering any light at the end of the slavery tunnel. You are a slave, period. You will even go back to being a slave after that errand.

Now your owner gives you an assignment. He gives you his private jet and opens an account for you that can access all his accounts wherever and whenever you may want. In fact he is the one who gives you authority to do so and does not even oversee what you are doing.

How faithfully will you run that errand?

You see, you can take that money as your price of freedom and simply disappear, especially as then there simply was no way of being caught had he chosen to disappear.

But do you know what amazed me even more? It was his introduction.

I am Abraham’s slave. This even with all the honor and responsibility and visible class he possessed. And not once does he stray from his assignment. He even refuses to eat before he has made known his errand. You even remember how focused his prayer was, only about that errand.

Then I thought. How many ministers are ashamed of being called God’s slaves? How many pastors think that the title pastor is too junior for them? How many create positions to fuel their need for importance?

How many ministers can be trusted with God’s resources? How many leave no doubt that they are nothing but slaves when ministering or running God’s errands?

Isn’t the reality so different from this? A pastor wants a bigger title and treats God’s resources as his own, even requiring proof of loyalty before allowing you to come near it. Congregants may be starving or being kicked of houses for lack of money rent as ministers and churches hoard God’s resources.

How many pastors have overthrown God from church and proudly become CEOs of the new structure though continuing to use God’s name and resources to do so?

It is also important to note that he was from the heathen nations around even through his prayer, meaning he had no heritage of faith or faithfulness to draw from.

Will we learn from this slave?

Will we treat God like this slave treated Abraham?

Let me not even talk about our secular engagements.