Let’s be honest. Singles are horrible about waiting until the last minute to show faithfulness. After all, something better, more fun, cooler, even a date!– might actually come along. We wait to reply yes on Facebook in fear that if we say yes then a better offer might come along. Singles even often use the phrase “planning on it” as a way to say yes, but something could happen.
When the Sunday School list to sign up for breakfast next week comes around you pass it on because you have not even committed to coming next week to church. A mission event is posted to our Facebook group. It sounds fun but is it the best option? Maybe something else will come up before then and cause you to choose the other event over the missions outing.
Raise your hand if you’ve ever thought or done any of the above. We see you. We hear you. We’ve done it too.
We need to be seeking the Lord’s path. By not discerning the choice He wants us to make, we can risk our faithfulness. It is only with HIS strength that we can choose and choose wisely. When we are called and respond with a yes, deciding at the last minute that you aren’t in the mood or you’d rather go hang with that other group, is the wrong choice. Foregoing God’s choice for our own choice should not be an option for a Christ Follower. God’s Word is clear. We need to be followers of Christ that commit to our actions
When you commit to anything, do so like you are committing to God’s faithfulness. Learning to show faithfulness in the small things will result in being trusted to show faithfulness in the bigger things in Life.
Be like Abraham.
By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was going to receive as an inheritance; he went out not knowing where he was going.
(Hebrews 11:8). (ESV)
Be a Person who commits to where they are at.
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
(James 4:13-17) (NIV)
Be a Disciple of Christ.
And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
(Luke 14:27) (NIV)
Be a one word answer person
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.
(Matthew 5:37) (NIV)
Say yes to the singles event. Say yes to the local mission. Say yes and commit, knowing full well that God has something big planned and you don’t want to miss it!
