Commitment is hard thing to come by in today’s society. We could apply this to so many areas of our daily life. Couples today just live together in order to avoid commitment. God loves commitment. That’s why He included Ruth’s statement to her mother-in-law in your Bible: (Ruth 1:16-19) "Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me." That’s the kind of commitment God admires - unqualified commitment.
A college man walked into a photography studio with a framed picture of his girlfriend. He wanted the picture duplicated.
This involved removing it from the frame. In doing this, the studio owner noticed the inscription on the back of the photograph: “My dearest Tom, I love you with all my heart. I love you more and more each day. I will love you forever and ever. I am yours for all eternity.” It was signed "Helen,” and it contained a P.S.: “If we ever break up, I want this picture back.” Helen was obviously not completely committed to that relationship.
One night the police called to ask single mom to get her daughter from the police station, because she’d been arrested for drunk driving. Not a word was spoken between them until the next afternoon, when mom broke the tension by giving her daughter a little gift-wrapped box. She opened it and found a small rock. Rolling her eyes she said, "What’s this for?" Her mom said, "Look underneath." She took the rock and as she read it, her eyes filled with tears. She got up, walked across the room and gave her mom a big hug. You see, on the card mom had written, This rock is more than two million years old - and that’s how long it will take before I give up on you! Now that is commitment.
During times like this when we are in the middle of a crisis we need to be committed to our families, our church and especially to our Lord.
COMMITMENT
Commitment is hard thing to come by in today’s society. We could apply this to so many areas of our daily life. Couples today just live together in order to avoid commitment. God loves commitment. That’s why He included Ruth’s statement to her mother-in-law in your Bible: (Ruth 1:16-19) "Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may the LORD do to me, and worse, if anything but death parts you and me." That’s the kind of commitment God admires - unqualified commitment.
A college man walked into a photography studio with a framed picture of his girlfriend. He wanted the picture duplicated.
This involved removing it from the frame. In doing this, the studio owner noticed the inscription on the back of the photograph: “My dearest Tom, I love you with all my heart. I love you more and more each day. I will love you forever and ever. I am yours for all eternity.” It was signed "Helen,” and it contained a P.S.: “If we ever break up, I want this picture back.” Helen was obviously not completely committed to that relationship.
One night the police called to ask single mom to get her daughter from the police station, because she’d been arrested for drunk driving. Not a word was spoken between them until the next afternoon, when mom broke the tension by giving her daughter a little gift-wrapped box. She opened it and found a small rock. Rolling her eyes she said, "What’s this for?" Her mom said, "Look underneath." She took the rock and as she read it, her eyes filled with tears. She got up, walked across the room and gave her mom a big hug. You see, on the card mom had written, This rock is more than two million years old - and that’s how long it will take before I give up on you! Now that is commitment.
During times like this when we are in the middle of a crisis we need to be committed to our families, our church and especially to our Lord.
Jerry Johnson