Daily Worship

Commitment

August 15, 2012 0 0

2 Timothy 4:7

​I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

​Lord,

can I talk to You a bit more about commitment?

What exactly would You say makes a good disciple?

I guess it’s about 

keeping the rules,

attending church every Sunday,

praying a lot,

keeping the ten commandments.

Is it actually true

that You once asked a guy 

to sell up everything he owned

and give all the money he made to the poor?

That must have taken some nerve.

I mean, to ask someone to sell all their possessions,

it gives a whole new meaning to the idea of 

travelling light.

Some of Your ideas are challenging to say the least:

turning the other cheek,

loving your enemies,

accepting strangers as neighbours.

You say it’s not about rules and achieving,

nothing to do with rule keeping at all?

I find that strange.

I know some disciples that 

are into rule keeping in a big way.

Have they got it wrong?

Lord,

could You explain this grace thing to me?

It all sounds too easy.

Live any way you want and God accepts you.

Ah, You say ‘no’ to that.

What do You mean?

You can only live one way,

the right way!

Because God accepts you.

Is it when we know God has accepted us 

that we want to live a new way out of gratitude.

Ah, that’s an interesting motivator.

Can we talk about this again?