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What Should I Do While I’m Seeking God’s Will? (Part 5)

Be Faithful Wherever You Find Yourself

It used to be standard practice for large companies to “headhunt” talented executives from prestigious universities or other successful companies for senior positions. But more and more I have noticed that it is becoming the policy of many large companies to promote from within. They look for talented people from their own ranks, individuals who have proven their trustworthiness and worked their way up the ladder, even from very low positions. This has always been God’s preferred method of promotion. God looks for faithful people He can promote and bless. He tests us with small tasks to see how we will react, and when we have proven ourselves, He gives us bigger responsibilities.

Moses had one of the most important leadership positions in history. He was assigned the challenging task of leading an entire nation—God’s chosen people, no less—across the wilderness to the Promised Land. It’s interesting to think that before God appointed Moses to such an important role, Moses had a similar assignment but on a much smaller scale. Rather than leading people through the wilderness, he was leading a flock of stinky sheep through that very same wilderness—for forty years! How could God have trusted Moses to lead His people if Moses had not proven His faithfulness leading sheep?

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We see this principle articulated over and over in Jesus’s teaching. In the parable of the talents Jesus says to the servant who had doubled his investment, “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things” (Matt. 25:21, NIV). In another parable Jesus said, “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much” (Luke 16:10, NIV). He goes on to compare the servant’s ability to handle money with his ability to handle “true riches”: “So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?” (Luke 16:11–12, NIV).

Psalm 75:6–7 says, “For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.” The scripture is clear: promotion does not come from the horizontal plane—the east or the west. That is to say that men are not the source of promotion. Also, promotion does not come from the south; the devil is also not the source of promotion. If promotion comes not from the south, east, or west, we know by process of elimination from which direction promotion comes—north! Look up! God is the promoter, and He promotes those who are faithful.

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