In my Bible reading this past week, there is one word that has created thought-provoking ponderings. The word FAITHFUL has taken me back in time and has hurled me forward into the world of the unknown. Yes, unknown to me, but not to MY GOD!
As I thought about this word, the song, “Find Us Faithful” by Steve Green, came to my mind. This song has permeated my heart for 25 plus years. The powerful words are:
We’re pilgrims on the journey of the narrow road, and those who’ve gone before us line the way, cheering on the faithful, encouraging the weary, their lives a stirring testament to God’s sustaining grace.
Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us run the race not only for the prize but those who’ve gone before us, let us leave to those behind us, the heritage of faithfulness passed on thru godly lives.
After all, our hopes and dreams have come and gone, and our children sift thru all we’ve left behind, may the clues that they discover, and the memories they uncover, become the light that leads them to the road we each must find.
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful, may the fire of our devotion light their way. May the footprints that we leave, lead them to believe, and the lives we live inspire them to obey. O may all who come behind us find us faithful.
My thought-provoking ponderings stir questions in my soul. Will my faithfulness leave an imprint on my children, my grandchildren, my friends? Will my faithfulness STIR a desire to want to KNOW God? When they sift through the memories that I have left them, will those memories inspire them to love God and follow hard after him? Yes, thought-provoking questions and the cry of my heart, that all who come behind me, find me FAITHFUL!
