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Making Commitments to God
Are you committed to God? It’s a question that many of us do not contemplate in real, meaningful terms as often as we should. Simply put, many believers are content carelessly responding ‘yes’. Why not answer more thoughtfully? Why not consider the ways in which you are dedicated to living out God-likeness? That’s exactly what King David was doing when he wrote Psalm 101.
I will sing of lovingkindness and justice, to You, O Lord, I will sing praises.
I will give heed to the blameless way.
When will You come to me?
I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.
I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not fasten its grip on me.
A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will know no evil.
Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy;
No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.
My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me;
He who walks in a blameless way is the one who will minister to me.
He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house;
He who speaks falsehood shall not maintain his position before me.
Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
So as to cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do iniquity.
Did you notice all of the commitments David makes to the Lord throughout this psalm? He isn’t just saying, “Lord I love you and am committed to you”. He is detailing how his commitment to the Lord will affect his life in specific ways. He is resolving that his commitment will define and change him in certain visible ways. All in all, David is laying out a blueprint of what his commitment to God is.
Are you committed to God? Are you willing to commit to the same principles David committed to? Do you think specifically and intentionally about what God’s involvement challenges and even changes in your life? If you can’t answer an emphatic ‘yes’ to all of these questions, perhaps you are not the believer that you need to be.
“Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.” (James 1:21-25)
It’s not just enough to hear about God and consider oneself a believer; practicing the things that God’s truth teaches us is necessary. Are you committed to doing that like David was?
