READ: 1 Corinthians 4:1-17
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
Proverbs 20:6
What is the point of being a faithful and loyal person when you are young only to change dramatically when you enter your fifties and sixties? Do you know how much you can achieve for God when you are fifty years old?
My mother told me that people in their fifties can experience the best years of their lives. She said, “When you hit fifty, it’s like a light comes on!” Indeed, when this light comes on, you must grow up and bear much fruit.
Being faithful unto death means that you are faithful before you retire and after you retire. By the power of God, you will cross the age of seventy with ease! You must be faithful until you are seventy and beyond!
Be faithful unto death means that you must be faithful through all the different changing scenes of life until you finally die. Indeed, there are many changing scenes of life. There is faithfulness in the season of marriage. There is also faithfulness in the season after your spouse passes away.
Be faithful unto death means that you must be loyal to God and to the church even if you have not achieved some of your life’s goals.
Do not allow a fear of humiliation among your more successful colleagues to drive you to become a disloyal monster. Some people have metamorphosed into spiritual Absaloms and Lucifers just because they felt they had not achieved as much as some others. If God has called you to the ministry, it is your faithfulness to Him that matters. Achieving great things in the eyes of men is not success per se. Jesus did not have a good reputation in this world. He was executed on a Roman cross.