There are
people who make commitments or promises and with everything in their fiber
they remain faithful no matter what. It doesn’t mean that there are no
challenges to being faithful, but its an inner value that lies within the heart of the
individual who stands faithful.
Faithful people want others to know they can be depended on and that alone provides the ones they love with a sense of emotional safety. However, too many of us have known or experienced the pain of unfaithfulness, especially in regard to romantic or marital relationships.
The Good Book distinctly says that an unfaithful person lacks sense and destroys his or her own soul. Yet the faithful man or woman often feels like the fool or is called a fool because they remained faithful during the relationship.
Further, one is never a fool who honors love by being faithful to their word, loyal to promises, and true to their own values. I know by experience the piercing arrow of unfaithfulness and I am determined never to do that to another human being.
I walked away with my dignity and character in tact and have been fortunate to find a new, everlasting, faithful love. "...but the Lord is faithful.....God is faithful and ...GREAT is [his] faithfulness...." (2 Thessalonians 3:3, 1 Corinthians 1: 9 and Lamentations 3:23).
I truly value faithfulness in myself and others. Is it an awesome trait to possess and it is a trait most people hope to find in a person they pledge their hearts to. "A FAITHFUL MAN SHALL ABOUND WITH BLESSINGS....." (Proverbs 28:20).
A fool, you see, is a person who “acts unwisely” or is “deficit” in character.(Proverbs 28:26 KJV). "Good understanding wins favor [from others], But the way of the unfaithful is hard [like barren, dry soil]. Every prudent and self-disciplined man acts with knowledge, But a [closed-minded] fool [who refuses to learn] displays his foolishness [for all to see]" (Proverbs 13:15-16 AMP).
Faithfulness demonstrates both wisdom and depth of character, so the question needs to be asked of the unfaithful: Who’s the “real” fool?
Faithful people want others to know they can be depended on and that alone provides the ones they love with a sense of emotional safety. However, too many of us have known or experienced the pain of unfaithfulness, especially in regard to romantic or marital relationships.
The Good Book distinctly says that an unfaithful person lacks sense and destroys his or her own soul. Yet the faithful man or woman often feels like the fool or is called a fool because they remained faithful during the relationship.
Further, one is never a fool who honors love by being faithful to their word, loyal to promises, and true to their own values. I know by experience the piercing arrow of unfaithfulness and I am determined never to do that to another human being.
I walked away with my dignity and character in tact and have been fortunate to find a new, everlasting, faithful love. "...but the Lord is faithful.....God is faithful and ...GREAT is [his] faithfulness...." (2 Thessalonians 3:3, 1 Corinthians 1: 9 and Lamentations 3:23).
I truly value faithfulness in myself and others. Is it an awesome trait to possess and it is a trait most people hope to find in a person they pledge their hearts to. "A FAITHFUL MAN SHALL ABOUND WITH BLESSINGS....." (Proverbs 28:20).
A fool, you see, is a person who “acts unwisely” or is “deficit” in character.(Proverbs 28:26 KJV). "Good understanding wins favor [from others], But the way of the unfaithful is hard [like barren, dry soil]. Every prudent and self-disciplined man acts with knowledge, But a [closed-minded] fool [who refuses to learn] displays his foolishness [for all to see]" (Proverbs 13:15-16 AMP).
Faithfulness demonstrates both wisdom and depth of character, so the question needs to be asked of the unfaithful: Who’s the “real” fool?
Dr. Pensacola
Helene Jefferson
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