Sometimes, don’t you just wish you knew the future? Just a little heads-up? Life is so full of obstacles, decisions, and the unexpected, it would be nice to know a little ahead! Shortly before God called my husband home, he texted me Psalm 86:11 with the note…”Prayer for our family this week”. This was the verse…“Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart that I will fear your name (the beginning of wisdom). I will praise you, Lord, my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever. For great is your love toward me; You have delivered me from the depths, from the realm of the dead.”
In a way, this was prophetic.
He left this earth for his heavenly home the following week!
Ralph had given me the verses I needed to begin to journey on… before he left!
An undivided heart is one that uses difficult and impossible times to demonstrate our commitment to God and those HE has called us to serve. This is called LOYALTY. Loyalty is the bonding of individuals in a long-term commitment of sacrificial support and defense. Infidelity or unfaithfulness is total betrayal to God and our designed purpose.
Each of us has loyalties to certain people or things. We are all loyal to something! We are loyal to things on earth(family, friends, money, job…) or we are loyal to things in heaven (rewards, abstaining from sin, godly relationships, walking in holiness, faithful in our witness and service). Loyalty is one thing a leader cannot do without.
All day long we are making decisions that tell us where our loyalty lies and to whom! It reveals what our mind is focused on. We are to make our decisions based on two things:
1 – Am I loyal to the authority responsible for me?
2 – Am I standing with those I am serving in their time of need and making them first, more successful than myself?
I guess the question is:
Do we doubt God’s sovereignty during adversity
or do we draw nearer to HIM?
Hence, my prayer for us this week…
“Relying on HIS faithfulness, give us an undivided heart”…
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
