Loyalty

You live in a world where integrity has been sadly lacking. A man used to promise to do something, and he would make sure that he would do as he promised. Today it becomes harder to find people that stay true to their word and remain loyal to a cause or to a person for their whole life. Loyalty is such an integral part of successful ongoing relationships but it is so sadly lacking in the world in which you live. One way to be looked upon with favor from God, is to be a person who is loyal to his friends, his colleagues, the people in authority over him and to God. If you cannot be loyal to people that you can see, how can you be loyal to a God that you can't see?

Many people will consider My life as they read the Gospels. There was one person that wasn't loyal to Me, that went out and sold Me and betrayed Me. When he came to Me in the Garden, I kissed him also as he kissed Me. My heart was crying not for what he had done to Me in his betrayal, as I needed to be betrayed, but My heart went out to him as I knew where his guilt was going to drive him later that night. Many people would consider that Peter denying Me was not loyal of him, but few people put in the same circumstances as him would have said they were with Me. Many can be disloyal to Me, but I will always love them, and sometimes after twenty five years away from Me in the wilderness as a lost sheep, My love, forbearance and loyalty to them will draw them back.

You live in a world where it only takes thirty seconds to unfriend someone who has insulted you on Facebook. You live in a world where a man that confesses adultery to his wife is left and divorced because the Law of Moses allows it. You live in a world where relationships are like shifting sand, always moving, and always changing. But it doesn't have to be that way. You can forgive, you can extend grace, you can show mercy, you can have compassion, and you can be loyal to a relationship despite the offences that may come. This is an important subject for us to cover, because if you cannot love the person that you can see, and you are so quick to destroy relationships, how can you really love Me that you cannot see?