TOTAL COMMITTMENT

TOTAL COMMITTMENT

One of the most important requirements or components or attributes of a wholly devoted life, is not just ecstatic praise and worship. Earlier on we talked about ‘Wholehearted love’.

However, we cannot achieve wholehearted devotion without wholehearted commitment, or total commitment.

I learnt about something about ‘Total Commitment’, from the story of King Hezekiah, who was a king of Judah, after the order of King David.

In 2 Chronicles chapter 31, verses 20-21, we read this amazing scripture:

“20 And thus Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.

And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.”
This tells me that in every area of his life as a worshipper, Hezekiah excelled. Hezekiah, before he did anything, checked if it was good, and then if it was truth, and again, if it was right. When he confirmed that it was all okay in the sight of God, he then proceeded to carry it out.

Secondly, Hezekiah ensured that never ignored the necessary intricate details of the law and the commandments. He ensured that he never deviated from the instructions given to Moses-this obviously made him outstanding.

Notice that Hezekiah won some incredible battles-in fact he did not lose any battles. God always fought for him supernaturally.

It was only brotherly love, and a desire not to cast away or fight against Israel according to divine instructions that brought Hezekiah in contact with the wicked king of Israel-Ahab.

 However, the Lord later separated, and delivered him from destruction, because it would have come from there.

Our lesson from all this is to prefer total commitment to excuses in small things. It is always easy to say, well it is good, but it is not right, however God will understand. Someone can also say, it right, but it is not the truth-God will understand. Yet another will say, it is the truth (word), but is not good or right, well (understand any way that the word of God cannot be wrong), so I don’t care. In all these things, let us not allow excuses to take the place of total commitment.