There was a statement that is being attributed to George McDonald, and it goes something like this.

Being trusted is greater compliment than being loved.

Now, I want you to just take a moment and digest this.

It took me a long time to really kind of focus on it.

Being trusted is greater compliment than being loved. I must confess to you when I read this

statement first, startled me. And I began to really think very hard about it. And when I did, I found myself to be an absolute agreement with it.

I don't need to tell you how trustworthiness has become an endangered species.

There was a time when a man's word was his bond.

I know. There was a time when trustworthiness was more

important than fame or wealth or popularity. There was a time. There was a time where a promise

is a promise is a promise.

Faithfulness is such an old-fashioned word that somehow has been taken out of circulation from our language.

Faithfulness is a word that somehow is fading away from the lexicons.

And as I look around, I see that the only commitment that seems to be on the increase is a commitment to political expedience. The only commitment that seemed to be

on the increase is a commitment to personal gain, to personal glory, to making yourself look good, commitment to personal gratification.

Sometimes I wonder, even if our younger generation will know what that word means.

Yet faithfulness is the heart of our human existence.

Faithfulness is the life of our human existence. Faithfulness is the lifeblood of all relationships.

Faithfulness keeps a family or a society from disintegrating. Faithfulness. It's a powerful word,

it's an important word, and it is not surprising, therefore,

that the Apostle Paul includes faithfulness in the list of the fruit of the spirit from Galatians 5, 22, and 23. As I looked up the Greek word, and I did some study, I found out that in the Greek language, the word, there's one

word that is translated faith or faithfulness. And some of your translations have it faith,

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