Commit

Commit to the Lord whatever you do and he will establish your plans. A brilliant mathematician was interviewed on the radio this morning, and she said that she spends an hour every day working on her mathematical research. If she misses a day, she loses track of what was in her mind, of what she was thinking, so she is committed to at least one hour every day. She loves sitting in a busy coffee shop or bar, where ‘life’ swirls round her as people socialise, and she sits alone with a blank sheet of paper, thinking hard – so hard her brain hurts – and the ideas come and she writes. 

Committed. 

A blank piece of paper reminds me of writing, and I hear the challenge. How committed am I? I certainly don’t sit every day for an hour and make sure I put something down on a piece of paper/computer. I don’t sit with the Lord for an hour every day either. 

Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. That brilliant mathematician is making a difference in the mathematical world, which probably is making a difference in the ‘real’ world, too. She is delighted, and committed, to her calling.

I want to make a difference. This world needs all of our voices crying out for justice, for mercy, living in faith in the living God, in Jesus, who is the exact representation of the glory of the Father. How committed am I? 

I hear the challenge.