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.”
