Consistency: The Great Need for Today

1 Chronicles 28:7

Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.

We live in days that most people live off feeling and what is fun to do than to live off the character to be consistent despite its fun and ease of the task. Great churches and nations are built by people who have the character to be consistent. Successful lives are built on consistency. You will never find one person who was successful without first being consistent in doing what they were supposed to do, even when they did not feel like doing it.

God wants to bless every person, but one thing He looks for is consistency before He blesses. Consistency always comes before blessings. God made a promise to Solomon that He would establish his kingdom if he be constant to do the commandments and judgments of God. God would not give His blessings to someone who was inconsistent to obedience. God put a prerequisite on His blessings to be constant before He chose to bless Solomon. Let me share several thoughts about this critical characteristic of being constant or consistent in life.

First, consistency is not about what you do today, but about what you do over time. Too many people want God to bless them because they do right today, but God wants to see the right done over time. Time determines one’s consistency. We want to make God into a vending machine that we insert the coin of doing one right into our life and expect God to give us the blessings that a life of consistency produces. God’s great blessings come to those who are consistent over time. Consistency over time proves to God that you are invested in Him and doing right, which results in God investing blessings in your life.

Second, consistency is accomplished by duty and not by feeling. Those who live by feelings will never be consistent. Consistency is done because one is focused on right. When doing right is what drives you, you will find it will be much easier to be consistent. A feeling-based individual only does right when it is convenient; a truth-based individual does right because it is right. The truth-based individual is consistent to do right and to do it when they don't feel like it and when it is not convenient to do it.

Third, consistency is about choosing to do right today. You will not be consistent over time if you don't choose to do right today. Consistent living is accomplished by choosing to do right every day. You don't choose to do right one day and not do right the next day and find your life to be consistent. Consistency is what Joshua taught Israel to do in Joshua 24:15 when he said, Choose you this day whom ye will serve. He was teaching them the importance of every day making the choice to do right.

Fourth, consistency is accomplished by doing right when right will not benefit you. Most people only do right when they benefit from it, but consistent people do right even when they get no benefit from doing it. Consistency is easy to do when you don't worry about what you get out of it, but your concern is about doing right. If you expect a blessing each time you do something, you will never be consistent. Consistency is the key to being a good steward of the life God has given you to live on this earth. If you want to please God with your life, then be consistent in doing right.