COMMITMENT TO YEHOVAH

A Christian who is not committed to God is like a soldier who is not loyal to his own country. The uncommitted Christian life simply does not work.

Many Christians struggle in their spiritual lives year after year, as branches not able to bear fruit, because they are only partially committed to Yehovah. The word of God makes it plain that partial commitment is worse than no commitment. 

The lord Jesus says:

I know your works: you are neither cold [unconverted] nor hot [totally committed]. Would that you were either cold [unconverted] or hot [totally committed]! So, because you are lukewarm [partially committed], and neither hot [totally committed] or cold [[unconverted] I will spit you out of my mouth. (Revelation 3:15-16, ESV)

Yehovah has shown His love total commitment to all of humanity by allowing His son, to be crucified on a stake as a sin offering sacrifice in order that He could reconcile humanity to Himself. To be able in amazing grace bless all those who come to believe in His anointed one Jesus, whom He commissioned to provide forgiveness of sins and new age life.

As a result of Yehovah’s total commitment to all of us, He expects us to serve him with a total commitment, loving Him with all our heart, mind, strength and being, and walking in faith-obedience before Him; as slaves bought and paid for by the blood of His uniquely begotten son Jesus.

If we are totally committed  slaves of Yehovah and His son Jesus we will, as a result, be slaves of righteousness (Romans 6:18)

Total commitment to Yehovah should be the foundation of our lives as members of the Israel of God (Romans 11:17-21; Ephesians 2:19)

Notice Jesus answer to what the greatest of all  commandments is:

The first of all the commandments is: Hear, O Israel; Yehovah our God is one Lord: And you shall love Yehovah your God with all your heart – total devotion, and with all your being, and with all your mind, and with all your strength: this is the first commandment. (Mark 12:29, 30)

Notice to be totally committed to Yehovah is to love Him above everything else! In doing so we will learn to live in His love flowing through us according to His amazing grace and love for us!

Our faith includes not only believing in Yehovah and the one whom He has sent, Jesus, but to be totally committing in all that we do will be according to His will.

Proverbs 16:3 says, “Commit what you do to Yehovah, and your plans will be established”. Indeed you will bear fruit that leads to age upon age lasting life in the coming New Age!

Repentance toward Yehovah involves a change of heart, and that change of heart will involve becoming totally committed to obeying His will for us in our lives, and that commitment will lead to our trusting in His love for us absolutely! Trusting that He will always have our back!

When we are totally committed to Yehovah we will experience His grace and love flowing through us and feel the fullness of His nature enabling too fulfill all the commands He give us to do. He will enable us to understand His word and realize a spirit of discernment as He shows us the way to live in this sin, sick world. It is amazing grace indeed to realize Yehovah’s transforming power will enable us to become men and women after His own heart! As God is light (1 John 1:5) then we can become light in Yehovah and live as children of light in this world (Ephesians 5:8)

To be totally committed to our God and Father Yehovah we died to self when we walked into the water of our baptism which covered us over as a grave; and when we came out of the water, we came out as a new creation empowered with the resurrection life of the lord Messiah Jesus which enables us to walk on the narrow path that leads to life in the Kingdom of God, under Yehovah’s Kingship.

May our God and Father Yehovah guide us and give us the enabling power to be totally committed to loving him with all our being so that we can become men and women after His own heart! To become like the only perfect man Jesus in all we say and do.