TRUE COMMITMENT

When you buy a car assembled by someone who wasn’t committed to his work, you’ve baught a lemon. When a musician plays unskillfully, we say his heart wasn’t in it. He isn’t committed. Our world has a commitment problem today. America has a commitment problem. The Church of Jesus Christ has a commitment problem, as well.

Absolute, total commitment to God, His will and His Word is the normal and universal expectatioin of God toward you, your will offered on the altar of sacrifice (Romans 12: 1-2). Obedience to Him and not to human will is whar He commands and expects from us (Romans 6). Commitment causes us to run the endurence race of life with success (Hebrews 12); It produces canstant evidence of spiritual life (John 15).

One will not and cannot commit to God unless he belongs to God. This is accomplished by giving over charge of ourselves into His hands, trusting Him for salvation and leadership. Commitment to God brings peace of mind and spirit; by abandoning myself to Him I become free. The life you are living isn’t real unless He is living it through you. Each and every part of us is to be committed and seperated unto God for His use and glory.

Paul said, “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thessalonians 5: 23).

Commitment is on three levels: spirit -- the eternal part of man. We commit to His salvation and eternal keeping: soul -- the intellect and emotional part, the thinking, reasoning part. We are to continually commit this for His instruction and re-education; and body -- the temporary dwelling place of the soul and spirit, the physical or material shell in which we live. This we commit daily as we seek the will of God over and above the will of flesh.

These three levels are active in three areas. We are committed to a Person, Jesus Christ by faith in His shed blood on our behalf, establishing the relationship to God; we are committed to a task, the will of God, proving that relationship; and committed to fellowship and worship, maintaining the peace and joy of the relationship. Are you committed to Jesus Christ?


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