Total commitment
Now may you be committed to the Lord our God with all your heart... ~ 1 Kings 8:61 (CEB)
But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him. ~ 1 Corinthians 6:17 (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
Since the Lord has made us one with him we need to be 100% committed to him.
PRAYER:
Lord, thank you for reaching out to me and bringing me into your circle. You deserve total commitment. But I'm incapable of 100% commitment. I'm way too flakey. I don't know why you bother with me in the first place -- unless you think that you can change me. That's what I'm asking of you, and that is what I'm counting on. Lord Jesus, have mercy and do something with me. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
