COMMITMENT

Deuteronomy 10:12-13 "What does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees?”
Fear meaning not wanting to dishonor, disrespect, disobey, and not let Him down or make Him sad at what we think in my mind inwardly, say to others that is not appropriate for a Child of God and the outward actions that I do that are contrary to God's Holy Word, Holy Will, and Holy Way for my life, on Earth as it is in Heaven, by His teachings, decrees, statues, and commands; only the godless are to fear God's wrath to come. Commitment.

With this Holy Scripture passage from the Word of God in mind, now ask yourself, "What does the godless heathen secular world culture ask of you and me"? Compare the two. What does God tell us and why? What does this pagan society tell us and why? See how darkness tempts you & I with sinful pleasures and distractions, but in reality deceitfully lures us to reject and turn our backs on God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. The question truly is not "How much can I get away with and still be a Christian, or still go to Heaven?" The true question is, "When is it right to disobey God?", believing that there are no consequences for our thoughts, speech and actions. This is the lie of Satan in Genesis 3:4-5, “You won’t die!” (You won't be punished for your sin) the serpent replied to the woman. “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.” It is also the way of Satan in Isaiah 14:12-14, “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘ I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’"

The question is not, “At what age is it 'right' to get drunk, take recreational drugs, become sexually active, use the 'F' word, look at pornography, et cetera.” Do people really believe that saying, "Hey, we're all adults here. we choose what we want to see, hear, say & do.", frees us to do what our Creator tells us not to do or what God expects His Child to do? What are the priorities that we live for? Who do we live for? Again, the question truly is "When is it right to disobey God?" There is no grey area here. Who are we committed to: God or God-rejecting people & Satan? It can not be to both the light & darkness, the truth & the lie, righteousness & Sin. Joshua's message is true today. Joshua 24:14-15, “Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

I pray that the answer that we give today is the same as the people of God in that day: Joshua 24:16 So the people answered and said: “Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods". To abandon God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit is "spiritual adultery". May we commit ourselves to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, follow His holy Word, Will & Way, repenting and rejecting the sinful pleasures, greed, lust and pride of the secular world that does not know the Lord. May we be "Salt & Light" to the world (Matthew 5:13-16) that they too may come to a "saving" knowledge of our Lord. Glory to God alone.

Hosea 10:12 “Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground (unseeded heart): for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.”

In Christ, Brian