How Do You Know?

Proverbs 25:19 (KJV) Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

The question that is hard to answer here, to me anyway, is “How do you know someone is unfaithful?  Is there a standard test?”  I don’t think so.  Like so many other areas of a walk in faith, it requires discernment, reason, and willingness to look at truth as opposed to fantasy. 

And unfaithful man on one level is simply someone who’s not a believer, I guess.  It’s a person who has no faith.  I think that it goes beyond that.  There are times when we will have to rely on people who are not believers and we still need to make discerning decisions.  These are hard opinions to reach because they require us to do a bit of judging and evaluating.

Keep in mind that we don’t make up the rules.  If someone is a murderer, he is not a murderer because we decide he is but because God has called him that.  God is the one who decides what is right and what is wrong and if all we are doing is correctly applying those labels.  Weare not judging but simply responding with discernment.

So?  When you are evaluating whether someone is faithful or not, one of the ways in which you can make that judgment is on whether they follow the law of God.  Are they basically moral?  Can they be trusted when no one is watching?  Hard questions, but then life is not easy.