Commitment

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. is born: Gr. has been born - 1 John 5:4

    The Lord Jesus Christ is the believer’s rule of life. In this flesh we will never be as he is in perfection, yet it is our desire. We look to Him, follow Him, and desire to be as he is in this world, For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith (1 Jn 5:4). The great work of God the Spirit in the child of God is conforming us to the image of Christ—For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren (Rom 8:29).

    This work will one day be complete for we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see him as he is (1 Jn 3:2). In this world, in a body of flesh, the Son of Man was committed to his Father. His life as a man was a life of willing obedience—And he that sent me is with Me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him (Jn 8:29). Jesus saith unto them, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work (Jn 4:34). And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Phil 2:8).

    This is the believer’s desire as well. Commitment to Christ, his Gospel, and his church is his people’s way of life. The end result of this life as a child of God, honors and glorifies God the Father and God the Son—For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s (1 Cor 6:20). Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven (Mt 5:16). There is nothing more honoring to God than being faithful to our profession of faith in Christ, neither is there anything more dishonoring to God than for one who professes to know him to be careless and negligent in the blessed privileges that he has given his people to enjoy, and that which gives him glory. May God give us grace to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Him.