The value of personal commitment in God's work

SUMMARY: We are all called to serve God through a servant's heart and ministry, both to believers and unbelievers. In Nehemiah 9, the people committed themselves to obeying God's law and signed a covenant of commitment. We live under a new covenant of grace through Christ, and our obedience to God's word is key to our commitment to Him. Let us declare and keep our commitment to Christ, knowing the joy of our incorruptible inheritance.

We all have a part in God's work, without exception. Being ministers of Christ means that we have understood that Christ longs to express his life in us through a servant's heart. The basin and the towel should be among the utensils that we carry to honor the Lord in love for others. Learn, with love, to wash the feet of your brother and even of those who are not. We serve God, believers and unbelievers by the Lord's imperative. It is not an option. We have all been called to ministry, to a vocation to serve, but with commitment. In a world in spiritual and moral ruin, this seems like a crazy affair. Nobody commits today if there are no benefits involved. Selfishness and individualism do not allow us to see three steps ahead, they are inhuman and rapacious.

In Nehemiah chapter 9, the Lord speaks of personal commitment to God's work. The temple and walls had been restored, but the hearts of the people still flirted with sin. Ezra and Nehemiah, committed servants of the Most High, led their countrymen to the conviction of depending on God, confessing and repenting of their rebellions and their forgetfulness of the great mercy and goodness of God through generations and now, in a new stage of spiritual renewal, humiliated and in adoration, they signed a covenant of commitment to obey the Law of God and turn to him (Neh 10). The commitment would be sealed in writing. Each one left his name written so that today we would know the value of committing before God to do his will. God guided the hearts of his people through his word.