Prayer
Why has commitment become a dirty word?
Pastor Tom
October 12, 2008
There’s a new dirty word in town. It’s not one you’ll hear in a curse or scrawled on an overpass. It’s not even a four letter word. It actually has 10 letters. But mention this word and people scatter. Phone lines go dead. Eyes glaze over. Walls go up. Excuses form in the mind.
What is this dreaded dirty word? Commitment! A commitment is “a responsibility; something that takes up time or energy, especially an obligation.” Commitment involves “loyalty or devotion to a cause, person or relationship.” Commitment used to be a widely held value.
We’re going to learn more about God’s great character today through someone who had every worldly reason to abandon commitment to the Lord. He was in the middle of a whole whack of trouble. Yet, he could declare “My heart is steadfast, O Lord, my heart is steadfast.” I’m committed to you wholeheartedly.
