God has committed Himself to us through Christ. Jesus demonstrated His commitment to us through laying down His life for us so that we may live. He is now calling us into a holy commitment to Him where He is purposing to adopt us, bless us, multiply us and make us a new creation. ​In light of His commitment to us, how should we ​demonstrate our commitment to Him?

All of us are seduced by moral compromise when we don’t trust God for our deliverance. But we desperately need to count the cost of our catastrophic moral failures as a people. For us to find our way through all of this we need to do all we can to rest on God’s promises while seeking to abide in His presence no matter what.

Where there is doubt there is skepticism, weakness and hesitation. But in His presence, there is truth, comfort, protection and reward. By God’s grace we are justified before God through our belief. We can believe God because He has demonstrated His commitment ​to us in no uncertain terms.

All of us have loved ones who are being held hostage by evil forces. We need to develop and implement strategies to rescue our loved ones. By God’s grace we do have someone who is willing to intercede on our behalf in the midst of our battles. He will meet us right where we are. He is the ultimate source of our blessing and victory in life. He is worthy of our devotion, submission and dependence as we endeavor to be all things to all people that ​some may be saved.

Conflicts can arise over almost anything. But by God’s grace, we can overcome conflict by passionately pursuing peace with others, by turning away from being impulsive and selfish people, by seeking God’s honor through the pursuit of peace and by faithfully walking with God.​

Even as God uses sovereign circumstances to guide us in new directions we can still trust God with what is true. We don’t need to speculate about our future or manipulate our circumstances. Unfortunately, when we don’t trust God with the truth we end up risking everything. When we misrepresent the truth we put our families, our resources, our relationships, our future, and our testimony at risk. Instead, we need to do all we can to faithfully call on the name of the LORD with integrity knowing that ​all we have is from Him.​

We need to listen to God’s call on our lives making sure we are where He wants us to be. As we listen to His voice and follow His leading, He promises to direct our paths, bless us, and build us up in our faith. We need to do all we can to be a blessing to everyone around us, faithfully living under His clear direction. God is the one who will make us a blessing to others. He is the one who will protect us. He is the one who will lift us up to use us in a mighty way for His ultimate glory.

We all know what it means to rebel against God. We rebel against God when we go our own direction, when we disobey His commandments, when we don’t seek His guidance, when we seek our own self-interests and when we merely seek our own security. The reality is that God will always see through our rebellion. He knows how rebellious we could be and He can make things even more difficult for us in our rebellion. But I am thankful as we follow Christ that in the end God will always have His way with us to the praise of the glory of His grace.

Our ongoing rebellion against God has brought about national separation, corrupt political leadership, family division and cultural strife. God continues to overcome these conflicts by drawing people to Himself from every nation, tribe and tongue through the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.