For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. — Psalm 57:10

 Understanding the Fruit of faithfulness, I believe, requires us to understand the faithfulness of God.  Since it is God who produces the Fruit of the Spirit in our lives, understanding His faithful nature will help us to better understand what He desires to produce in us.

*This is part 8 of a 10 part series on the Fruit of the Spirit that started on November 23, 2009.  You can access past material by using the calendar archive button on the right side of the screen.

How do you define success? God measures our success by our obedience, our faithfulness, and our love for Him. Successfulness by the world’s standards has to do with our personal gain, but God is concerned with our personal sacrifice for Him and His Kingdom. He is in complete control of our success or lack there of. Our success is not based on possessions but on position. Being positioned in God’s presence changes everything. When we are obedient to Him, God puts us in a position for success.

Examine your heart as you ponder these verses…

These are words that we long to hear.

Well done, good and faithful servant!

- Matthew 25:21

Lamentations 3:22-24

Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,

for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning;

great is your faithfulness.

I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;

therefore I will wait for him.”