As youth, we are emotional, we are momentary. Many of us want to serve the Lord from our perspective. We often preach throughout the world when we cannot even preach to our neighbors. Many of us want to have many disciples for God, but we don’t want to pay the price to devote our time to Him. Many of us want things to fall from the sky, our ministry, our purpose, but that’s not how things work.
The clearest example of commitment to God is found in the history of David. First, we must remember Saul, the king who came before him. Saul was beautiful, full of talent, the highest of all his tribe and was declared as king. Initially, he agreed to follow the Lord with his heart, though I don’t think he had done it with all his heart. Why? The moment in which his interests were affected, he began to believe that he was elected king because of his strength and his talents. At that time he refused to surrender his life completely to God’s authority, and it is precisely when he loses his kingdom.
On the other hand, we have David, a simple shepherd of sheep, an average teenager with long hair, tending sheep in the pasture further away from his family. Throughout the story, we see that no one thought that David wasn’t even a candidate to lead a flock of sheep, even more impossible to lead a kingdom. What people didn’t know was that David has given his life to the Lord. In desolation, among his sheep, his only companions, David began his high purpose. Once crowned king, David didn’t directly assume the kingdom, it was a process of confirmation about his willing. I guess God wanted to test the compromised heart of David. God has a purpose with us and we can’t deny it. He loves you and wants to be your father, it’s time to make a commitment with God!
David’s commitment to God involves the following virtues:
Decision to follow the Lord forever
Authority to face our fears
Vowing our life in commitment to God
Incredible love that God pours out
Definitely having faith that God will help us, despite the circumstances
