Commitment (2)
Tuesday June 20, 2017
What kind of commitments do we make? How do we feel when we keep a commitment, even when it's challenging to do so? These days, commitment seems to have become something to avoid, something that is bound to result only in inconvenience at some point. Commitment involves hard work. Choosing to honour our promises regardless of other possibilities that present themselves isn't easy, so, is it worth doing?
So you should try very hard to add goodness to your faith. To goodness, add knowledge. To knowledge, add the ability to control yourselves. To the ability to control yourselves, add the strength to keep going. To the strength to keep going, add godliness. To godliness, add kindness for one another. And to kindness for one another, add love. All these things should describe you more and more. They will make you useful and fruitful as you know our Lord Jesus Christ better. (2 Peter 1:5-8 NIRV)
Any success in life whether in business, sports, or a relationship is the result of making a choice and sticking with the plan. Practice makes perfect. It takes commitment to a chosen practice until the desired skill comes. Many things look more pleasant than the monotony and hard work included in doing the same thing again and again. The benefit of choosing to stay committed only shows after a period of staying the course.
Commitment requires that we learn how to “live and let live,” “let go and let God,” and “accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is indeed God. He is the faithful God who keeps his covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes his unfailing love on those who love him and obey his commands. (Deuteronomy 7:9 NLT)
Commitment to God’s way brings favour and honour and blessings to our lives as we continually choose to turn our will and our life over to His care.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, help me to choose commitment over convenience in all my ways. As You are faithful to me, help me to be faithful to those with whom I live and work and play. Amen.
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