Fully Committed

This morning I've been thinking about the word commitment. When we committed our lives to God we entrusted them to Him. We gave our lives over to the Lord trusting that He would keep them safe. We commended them to His care.

Yet, many of us committed our lives to the Lord on a contingent basis. We confessed Christ and believed in our hearts. We knew that giving our lives to Jesus would ensure us eternal life and guarantee us entrance into heaven's gates.

But our commitment to Christ extends far beyond our confession of faith. It involves living a daily life in line with the Word of God. It entails living our lives in service to others. It means giving up our will for God's.

When we committed ourselves to the Lord, we were telling Him that we thought His way was the best way. We were signaling that we were giving up our desire and submitting to His.

Too many of us are not fully committed to God. We've said that He is our Lord, but our actions don't reflect that. We came to Him confessing that He was our Savior, but we haven't allowed Him to free us from all that we were bound to.

Today, think about what it means to be committed to the Lord. Look at your life and assess whether you've committed everything to Him. See if there's any places where you're still living what you think is best and not what God says is the best.

Ask God to help you to fully commit to His will. Allow His sovereignty to lead and guide you. Remember the day that you came to Christ recognizing His true saving power. Then let Him free you from all the things that you are bound to.

Verse of the Day: ...nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. Luke 22:42b