We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When we obey God, we're not doing it for God... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.
When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.
Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.
When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.
We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.
Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.