Commitment

Our purpose in life usually has a wrong starting point –ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like "What do I want to be?" "What should I do with my life?" "What are my goals?" "What is my ambition, my dreams for my future?" If all we do is focus on ourselves we will never know life's purpose. I found this very interesting Noah's great work was not that he masterfully built an ark from God's blueprint.

Noah believed God! But more important than what he did was what he was. Abraham was called to find a city. He also had to believe God but it was what God made out of him because of the journey.

Rom 4:3
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

Nehemiah was called to build a wall, but the story is not just in the building of the wall, it was what he became during the process. Paul was called to evangelize the known world. His story in Scripture is not just what he endured while doing things for God, but what he became for God while he did it. Are you getting the picture? It is not so much what you are doing for God but what God is doing in you while you are doing it.

So what are you?

A friend wrote and asked this question "What is real and what is Hypocritical" I wrote her back and said real is what you really are and Hypocritical is what you want everyone else to think you are."

What are you learning in your journey?

What are you becoming during the process?

When will you be ready to quit or what will it take?

How committed are you? Men and women get married and make a commitment or do they? They say for better or worse richer or poorer but do they really mean it? One gets sick or instead of getting richer they become poorer then they separate. Oh my friend that is far from being committed. Henanod Cortez 1485-1547 was a Spanish adventurer. He sailed from the West Indies in 1504 and crushed a revolt of the natives of Santo Domingo. As a reward for his courage and skill in battle, the Spanish governor appointed him commander of a fleet. This fleet consisted of 11 small ships and 700 men. In 1519 they landed on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Cortez then burned all except one of the vessels; he did that so that none of his men would desert him. Then sent the one ship with messengers to tell the king what had had done, and ask permission to continue the work. Cortez was committed to the work. Webster say the word Commit means to give in trust; to put into the hands or power of another; to entrust; with to. Psa 37:5
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Are we committed? Or are we just killing time? View yourself to day and ask yourself this question was I really committed today or was I just getting by? I hope you can say "I went out this morning like a kid on the play ground with an adventurous attitude and excitement to what and where the Lord would use me in the lives of others." Then and only then will you be able to know what you are learning on your journey and what you are becoming during the process. The Christian life is a wonderful life as well as exciting; every day is like a page in an exciting book you just can't hardly wait to see what's on the next page. Stop and think right now how the Lord has used you in some body's life? Give the Lord praise and thank Him for choosing you to help in the life of another.