Recently I have been thinking a lot about a few words like commitment, discipline and some others. It is sad that these words that seemed very relevant in society particularly in the lives of Christians are becoming irrelevant. Today they have become words we explain away and hate to think about. It is sad that Pentecostals appear to be the worst culprits in this regard. Though God requires us to be committed and disciplined, we allow ourselves to be subject to the leading of our flesh and think it is okay to do whatever we feel like doing and whenever we feel like doing those things inspite of the commitments that we had made. Unfortunately, what we are saying is that it is okay not to be dependable.
Psalm 15: 1 & 4NLT “Who may worship in your sanctuary, Lord? Who may enter your presence on your holy hill...those who despise flagrant sinners, and honor the faithful followers of the Lord, and keep their promises even when it hurts.”
My dictionary tells me that commitment is an agreement or pledge to do something. Also it is a state of being obligated or emotionally impelled to do something. When we commit to a cause or anything, we ought to do everything reasonably possible to see it. Commitment is not something you are compelled to do, you make a decision to do that thing but when you make that commitment, God expects us as Christians to see it through. Indeed heaven empowers us to see our commitments through.
James 5: 12bNIV “Let your yes be yes, and your no, no or you will be condemned.”
Unfortunately it is not so today in the church and our excuse for our disgraceful behavior is the liberty we have in Christ. We forget that the bible says we should not use the liberty God gives us to please the flesh but is that not what we are doing?
Our God wants us to be like Him but it is sad that we are becoming more and more like the devil who keeps no commitment. This is the biggest problem we have with believing God. We are so unreliable and so totally uncommitted to keeping any commitment we make that we are unable to accept in our minds that God will be committed to keeping His word. The sad thing is that we actually make jokes of people that expect us to keep our word. We say they are stupid in believing that we would do what we committed to doing. No wonder we don’t even take covenants seriously anymore. As far as we are concerned you just make them to be broken. Please where is the church going today? Do you know that cultists take covenants more seriously than we do now?
I don’t think anybody is born committed. We are either taught commitment by our parents or we acquire the attribute as we grow up. If we fail to acquire it, when we give our lives to Christ and He comes to indwell us, it is one of the attributes that we then naturally acquire because it is in the nature of God. All we have to do is discipline ourselves to ensure that we reveal that which we have on the inside. The world cannot be changed by a people who have no sense of commitment to anything. “To thine own self be true.” Review your own life, if you fail in that area, you can always ask God for help.
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