Have you ever experienced someone "backing out" of a commitment? That feeling you get when you know you're hearing an excuse - it's unmistakable. You're disappointed, let down and sometimes even hurt. Imagine how our Lord must feel when we don't follow through with our prayer time or devotional time with Him? Oh we want to - but something else always seems to come up.
There’s a big difference between just being interested in doing something and actually making a commitment to doing it! Just being interested allows us the freedom to do something only when our circumstances permit. But making a commitment to do something means accepting no excuses and no reservations — it means putting aside our distractions or fears and then moving forward till we see the end result!
This time of year there are so many half-hearted resolutions that are made - good intentions but, no commitment. As we come into 2014, let's make a commitment to spend more quality time in prayer, devotion and study time with our Lord and His word to us. As you Seek His will and direction for the coming year, I know you will like the end result!
Happy New Year!
The Truth
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:13-14)
