Faithful Disciples

Focus: 1 Corinthians 4:17 - KJV

17. For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

1 Corinthians 16:10-18

There are disciples and there are disciples. Some like Timothy, are ordained to be like the master who takes after Christ, and therefore do not bring the ministry into disrepute of any kind. They present the ways of the master, which are the ways of Christ, to the people without destroying the message with their negative character. Yet, there are others, who because of their evil pursuit which is not hidden from the brethren, smear the ministry of the master when they are sent forth as disciples. There are still others who are just not available yet, to carry the master’s mission abroad for perhaps, another genuine course. But God knows them that are the faithful disciples and their works show in every light.

The master, Paul was by himself full of praises for his disciple, Timothy. He testified, by himself of the good works of Timothy. Not only him, but other faithful disciples of his. Even though he was clamped in prison, yet was his messages getting to the Churches that Christ had formed through him, with the instrumentality of the faithful disciples. They did not dilute the message, neither did they disparage the master before the brethren. What the master sent to the Church they got and whatever they sent to the master got to him. Some unfaithful ones like Gehazi, would tell the brethren what they are not sent and collect things in the name of the Master and yet hide it from him.

God is saying to us today that it profits man nothing to gain the whole world and lose his soul. There is great gain in faithful stewardship. If only we can be faithful to the one through whom we have been ordained unto being vessels in the hands of the Lord, to put his good reputation virtually forward before men, even as he represents Christ, and not mar the said reputation with our wickedness, then the better for us. Imagine this: what would Naaman have thought of Elisha who had said no to gifts and then “sent” his disciple to collect eventually? God is not an author of confusion. Desist from it.

Please pray:

Father, I thank you for making me a disciple of Christ under the pupillage of a faithful son of yours. Please help me never to misrepresent my leader or disparage his name or your ministry in any way by my actions, in Jesus’ name. Take away from me every spirit that lusts after gain outside the blessings of ministry, in Jesus’ name. Let your Church find real growth in my time through the faithful dissemination of the truth and purpose for which you set it up, in Jesus’ name. Your name shall be glorified to the end Lord, in Jesus’ name.

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