Fully Committed

After you are saved, if you are going to go on to serve the Lord faithfully, there is a time when you get fully committed.

Any of these common conditions could lead you to be fully committed:

You develop over time – 2 Tim 3:15, Acts 16:1-3, 1 Tim 1:2, 2 Tim 4 postscript.  Timothy developed over time from a saved child to the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians. As Paul wrote in 1 Tim 3:1 you have a desire and God grants your desire.  You become committed as you progress in your growth in grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus.  There isn’t necessarily a single day of commitment.

You are clearly called by God – Acts 9:1-6; Acts 13:1-3. Jer 1:4-8.  There is a day when God calls you to minister for him.  It could happen when you are very young.  It is a significant and definite call of God.  You might run from it for a while, but you are committed when you surrender yourself to his call and follow him from then on.

You see the need – Neh 1:1-4, 2:5.  Lam 3:51.  Like Nehemiah, you see a need that you can meet and you just have to do something about it.  D. L. Moody was this way about soldiers in the Civil War and about impoverished children in Chicago.

You’ve had it with sin – 1 Pet 4:1-5.  You don’t want to suffer from sin anymore.  So, you cease from that sin and you decide to live the rest of your time to the will of God.  You can pinpoint your your decision to a day when you made that definite life long commitment.

Conclusion: if you are not fully committed yet, perhaps this is the day God is dealing with you about his call in your life, or a need you can meet, or a break with sin and a decision to do his will from now on.