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Whatever Happened To Commitment?
Luke 9:57-62 describes what commitment is. One of its greatest obstacles is our relationships with others. People hold human relationships higher than their spiritual relationship with the heavenly Father.
Our commitment is more than words we utter or verify with a signature. Commitment cannot be based upon a feeling or mood. Although we would like to feel better emotionally, that is not that thing we need the most. We need commitment, a real objective movement toward God.
The daily question we must ask is not “How do I feel today?”, but “What am I in relation to God today?”. It was the apostle Paul who exhorted, “Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves…” (2 Corinthians 13:5). Asking such a sober question as that will open the door for an examination of where we are verses where we need to be.
In the story of Alice in Wonderland, Alice came to a junction in the road leading in different directions. She asked the Cheshire Cat for advice. Alice asked, “Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?” The cat said, “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.” “I don’t much care where,” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the cat. He’s right! If we don’t know where we want to go, any fork in the road will do.
Joshua knew the choice to make and he made it (Joshua 24:15). He knew the responsibility he had to commit to a choice. His choice was God. Is that what you promised God you would do? Stick to your commitment. Hold fast. Do not waver. Do what is right!
