Keeping Your Commitments

   A commitment is something we verbally make.  An example of this is the vow we make to one

another when we get married (I Corinthians 7:10-11) not to leave one another until death departs us.  

This example was given to me by my parents, Earl & Sue Eccles who was married for 56 years on her

passing due to Cancer.  They stayed true to their commitment to one another until the end.  

             Another commitment most of us in the church make is to Christ.  Through this commitment 

which we do make to Christ, even so we become One Body through His baptism in which we all walk 

in unity of Christ's calling (Ephesians 4:1-6).  This walk we make after making a promise to Christ our 

Savior.  At which time we put on His body, to make our likeness anew.

              The idea of committing oneself to Christ is really not a new one.  It goes back to Acts 2:38-39 

when the church began, and Peter cried out, "repent in the name of Jesus Christ and be baptized..."  We

then find later on that three thousand souls were saved on that same day.  Would you like to add your 

name to that list today.

Paul D. Eccles