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Will you have a good report in Heaven?

Hebrews 11:2 For by it (faith) the elders obtained a good report. What is the report that Heaven has of you? The men and women of old trusted God and His word. They believed in God’s promises even during times of great distress and hardship. By faith (confidence, trust and reliance on God), they received divine provision, strategies, miracles, deliverance and answers. Because of their confidence in God and their faithfulness to Him, they have a good report and testimony in Heaven. Right now, your report is being created. What will Heaven’s report say about you? Are you living your life in such a way that all of Heaven speaks well of you? Are you daily working on your faith in God (confidence, trust, and reliance)? Will God say to you: “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) Something to think about today!

Hebrews 11:2 For by it (faith) the elders obtained a good report.

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Who will you trust in times of trouble?

Have you ever been in a situation where you really needed someone to come through for you, and the person disappoints you? I’ve seen this happen at work, in church and even personally. Proverbs 25:19 says: “Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is like a bad tooth and a foot out of joint.” Confidence has various meanings, but in this verse, confidence means: faith or belief that one will act in a right, proper, or effective way. I once lost a friendship because I asked someone to pick him up at the airport. Not only did the person not pick up my friend, my friend had to navigate in a city that he knew nothing of. My friend’s wife was livid with me. They never trusted me again. God also is grieved at unfaithful people. In Matthew 26-28, the Lord Jesus shared this about the unfaithful man: “But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents.” My question to you today is: do your family and friends see you as faithful? And even more importantly, does God call you “faithful servant?”

Proverbs 25:19 “Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Is like a bad tooth and a foot out of joint.”