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Marks of a Committed Christian #1


By Revd 'Remi Tejumola

Shalom! Committed Christian have traits or marks. It's something beyond going regularly to church.

A few weeks back I treated a subject about God's will, and then went further to teach about the Process of Divine Change. The teaching today is a follow-up to those. So come along with me.

The Apostle Paul in Romans 12:1 said, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."

The life of a committed Christian is strewn with periods of deeper commitments. The very first commitment comes as a revelation of Christ our saviour comes to him. So he commits himself to that One who died and rose again for his sake. Because of this revelation, he relates with people whom he perceived has had the same experience with Jesus with real agape love.

He's so happy to have been saved from so great a death that he will do anything for Jesus. When evangelism is introduced to him, he launches right into it. He doesn't even have any idea nor understand what spiritual maturity is.

As he spends quality time in the Word of God, he begins to mature in the Lord, and as he mixes with other Christians, he'll begin to see the weaknesses of both of others and those of himself. He finds himself wanton in a lot of areas, and so make deeper commitments to Jesus from time to time.

At other times what called for deeper commitments is the lessons learnt from the Word through personal studies and through Bible Studies or Seminars in church that enlightens some vital areas of his life. These equally attracts deeper commitments from him.

What I have been calling commitments are actually consecrations to Jesus. I will talk more about this in my next post. Till then, God bless.

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