Love and Faithfulness

Scripture:

Proverbs 3:3-4 "Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.  Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man".

Observation:

Solomon was the wisest man ever to live.  God gave him incredible wisdom and practical insight into everyday living.  Here he tells us to bind love and faithfulness around our necks and to write them on the tablets of our hearts.  He is basically saying that love and faithfulness are crucial and that walking in them will bring favor and cause us to have a good name with God and man.  Favor and a good name can open many doors in our lives, but we get those through love and faithfulness.

Application:

Love and faithfulness seem like easy targets, but they are actually very difficult to live out.  Love is easy toward those who love you and are kind to you.  Real love is when we love those who hate us like our Savior.  Faithfulness sounds easy, but usually faithfulness is demonstrated when we have to be faithful in something we are not exactly loving.  Faithfulness means I can be faithful beyond my feelings.  Faithfulness means I can be trusted when things are going great and when they are not.  We must make love and faithfulness priorities in our lives, when we do, we are promised favor and favor is powerful!

Prayer:

Lord God Almighty, teach me to love the unlovable and to be faithful when things are not going so well around me.  Help me to walk in the power of your Spirit and do the things You want me to do regardless of whether I feel like it or not.  I want to serve You well.  Help me to do it!

Yours,
Jeff