And You Thought Men Had Commitment Issues...

It wasn't until someone that I had talked a couple times and hardly knew me, could randomly blurt out one kind of pressure filled night of a conversation, "Why don't you trust people?!" That totally caught off by surprise. I didn't even respond to it. How could they, who I hardly talk to & doesn't even know my life story, accuse ME of not trusting people? Well as I've looked at it more and more since that question came to me, I realized maybe I do have some trust issues. Oh sure I can trust that a person will do something but its those really important things that matter to me.

Did you know that in the dictionary there are 12 definitions for the word, commit?

Commit:

1.	to give in trust or charge; consign.

2.	to consign for preservation: to commit ideas to writing; to commit a poem to memory.

3.	to pledge (oneself) to a position on an issue or question; express (one's intention, feeling, etc.): Asked if he was a candidate, he refused to commit himself.

4.	to bind or obligate, as by pledge or assurance; pledge: to commit oneself to a promise; to be committed to a course of action.

5.	to entrust, esp. for safekeeping; commend: to commit one's soul to God.

6.	to do; perform; perpetrate: to commit murder; to commit an error.

7.	to consign to custody: to commit a delinquent to a reformatory.

8.	to place in a mental institution or hospital by or as if by legal authority: He was committed on the certificate of two psychiatrists.

9.	to deliver for treatment, disposal, etc.; relegate: to commit a manuscript to the flames.

10.	to send into a battle: The commander has committed all his troops to the front lines.

11.	Parliamentary Procedure. to refer (a bill or the like) to a committee for consideration.

–verb (used without object)

12.	to pledge or engage oneself: an athlete who commits to the highest standards.

But I think the only commit that really matters to God is when we give Him our whole hearts.

"So that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God and that there is no other. But your hearts must be fully committed to the LORD our God, to live by his decrees and obey his commands, as at this time.Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD. "
1 Kings 8: 60 - 62

He doesn't except for us all to be perfect, but I know that God expects me to live my life to be more Christlike. He will guide me through these trust issues and help me overcome them. I trust in Him.



Kim S.