We see signs of a lack of commitment everywhere.
The divorce rate is still climbing. Those living together outside of marriage are increasing with children being born out of wedlock as the evidence of it.
Loyalty has decreased,
• fewer numbers of people are willing to join any organization,
• the percentage of those willing to fight for their country has continued to drop,
• parents are less willing to remain in a marriage for the sake of their children,
Jesus never says that being a Christian is easy. He does say that His yoke is easy but it is still a yoke. Jesus indicates up front that it is not an easy road when he says, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head." He makes it even clearer when He says, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me." In other words, take up your instrument of execution every day and follow Him. Put your own personal desires, wants, dreams, habits, addictions, lusts to death every day and follow Him. That is a commitment indeed!
That kind of commitment that Jesus calls us to is very difficult but the alternative is so much worse. The only way we can really have life and really live life to the ultimate is through a true commitment to Jesus Christ.
Luke 9:57-62.
Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, "Lord, I will follow You wherever You go." And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head." Then He said to another, "Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God." And another also said, "Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house." But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."
Luke 9 : 23
Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me."
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