O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. (1 Timothy 6:20-21 KJV)
Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. (2 Timothy 1:11-12 KJV)
When I hear the word commitment, I think of marriage. Commitment goes both ways. One makes a commitment, which binds them to another, putting trust in them. Without commitment, marriages fail.
Our trust in worldly things fails, even in new things. Clothes unravel or tear at the seams; cars off the lots are determined to be ‘lemons’; jobs we depend on for sustenance cease to exist; our very homes show cracks as they settle. We were told long ago not to depend on them, and why:
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Matthew 6:19-21 KJV)
God has made a commitment to us about that heavenly treasure:
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (Romans 10:9 KJV)
He made the commitment Himself, coming to us in person:
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:17 KJV)
Through men called to His purpose, He has laid out what we need to know to reach Him: The books teaching us of Him stretch from:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1 KJV)
To:
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. (Revelation 22:21 KJV)
Some are short, some are long. All provide a light along our way and direct us to His promises:
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. (Psalms 37:5 KJV)
Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. (2 Timothy 1:11-12 KJV)
When I hear the word commitment, I think of marriage. Commitment goes both ways. One makes a commitment, which binds them to another, putting trust in them. Without commitment, marriages fail.
Our trust in worldly things fails, even in new things. Clothes unravel or tear at the seams; cars off the lots are determined to be ‘lemons’; jobs we depend on for sustenance cease to exist; our very homes show cracks as they settle. We were told long ago not to depend on them, and why:
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Matthew 6:19-21 KJV)
God has made a commitment to us about that heavenly treasure:
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (Romans 10:9 KJV)
He made the commitment Himself, coming to us in person:
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:17 KJV)
Through men called to His purpose, He has laid out what we need to know to reach Him: The books teaching us of Him stretch from:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1 KJV)
To:
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. (Revelation 22:21 KJV)
Some are short, some are long. All provide a light along our way and direct us to His promises:
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. (Psalms 37:5 KJV)
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