DAILY DEVOTIONAL
June 11 — Faithfulness, showing up
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June 11 — Faithfulness, Showing Up
"His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." — Matthew 25:21 (KJV)
The master in the parable does not praise the servant for being clever. He praises him for being faithful. Faithful over a little.
That phrase — over a little — is the part that reorders a household. We tend to think faithfulness shows up in the big moments. The dramatic decision. The vow renewed in front of witnesses. The career change made for the right reasons. Those are real. They are not where most of faithfulness lives.
Most of faithfulness is the boring repetition. The morning the parent prays for the same child for the eight-hundredth day in a row. The Tuesday the spouse keeps the small promise no one is watching. The Wednesday the believer reads ten verses because that is what was scheduled, even though nothing about the verses feels new. These are the small fidelities the master notices.
A lot of the platforms in our pocket reward the opposite — novelty, freshness, the new thing. The Christian life rewards return. The same Scripture read across decades. The same prayer prayed across seasons. The same household kept across years. None of that goes viral. All of it is what Christ calls faithful over a little.
Today, do the small thing you have been doing. Don't add a new one. Just do the existing one with care.
"They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." — Lamentations 3:23 (KJV)
May the Lord bless you and keep you.