"Becoming Fully Committed" Series

You have heard me say it before and you will probably hear me say it again, “To be committed to God 99% is 1% too short.” God hasn’t called us to be partially committed to Him; He has called us to be fully committed to Him. God isn’t interested in something called our spiritual lives; He’s just interested in our lives.

Colossians 3:1-2 says, “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your minds on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things, for you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”

God desires for us to be fully committed to Him and follow His leading in our lives. God requires complete and total commitment to Him.

Last week we briefly touched on the subject of passion. We learned if we are going to be effective world changers for God then we need to develop a passion for God. Developing a passion for God is part of what makes someone a fully committed follower of Christ and fully committed to God.

We need to be passionate about God & desire nothing more than to know Him more intimately

We must realize that as followers of Jesus Christ, that Christ is the only reason for living.

That may be a hard pill for many of us to swallow. We tend to think that there are many reasons to live. We have our families, our enjoyment, our contributions to society and our communities, but if we boil it all down to one central reason that we as followers of Christ have for living it is simply to please God and do his work.

God has given to each of us a family and loved ones and enjoyment and excitement in life; He has allowed us to make contributions to society and our communities, but the reality is that God has given these things to us so that among them and with them and through them we can do His work. So as a Christian, God is our reason for living.

When we realize this we become fully devoted to God and a fully committed follower of Him. So we need to ask ourselves this question, “Am I living my life this way”? “Is Christ my central focus in life?” “Does pleasing God and doing His will determine how I live my life?”

We all have to answer those questions and arrange the events and practices of our lives to make the answers to the questions an unmistakably resounding yes! One day we are going to have to stand before God and answer to Him for how we have lived our lives, and really all that will matter and last for eternity is what we have done for Him. So it would make sense and be very beneficial if we lived fully committed lives for god and followed His leadership so that when that day comes we will be able to answer God with a resounding, “I lived my life fully for you”!

The Apostle Paul in the New Testament book of Philippians said that Christ was his total reason for living.

Philippians 1:21 – “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”

Paul further emphasizes his point in:

Philippians 3:7-10: “But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ – the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.”