Your Faithfulness Rewards Others
- Brandon Bruce
- Sep 30, 2025
- 2 min read
“Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. It gave me great joy when some believers came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.” -3 John 1:2-4
Every follower of Jesus benefits from the previous investment of other believers that have gone before them! In our immediate relationship circles and throughout our spiritual lineage, there have been countless people who have prayed for us, taught the Bible to us, encouraged us, modeled faith for us, have been there to answer questions or guide us in our spiritual development! You may never meet many of those people on earth, but their prayers and sacrifices passed the Gospel down to you!
As you succeed in living for Jesus and walking in His truth (v.3), it brings great joy to other believers who have invested in you and been faithful to carry the truth on so that it got to you!
Of course, we live to please God, not people, but it’s helpful to know that our faith significantly encourages other people.
When you remain faithful, it causes great joy for others and spurs on their faithfulness!
As you remain faithful to walk in the truth, your life is a witness to those before you and to those who will come after you! You have a ministry of encouragement and your life preaches a message of truth as you faithfully walk in that truth!
Keep your eyes on Jesus and know that others have their eyes on you!
The lives of others are being encouraged and impacted by Jesus as you faithfully walk in the truth!
Right on?
Read/listen to 3 John chapter 1 and Jude chapter 1 and Revelation chapter 1
Prayer focus: thank God for those who have come before you in the faith and ask Him to use you to be an encouragement to them as well as to those who will come after you
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