Lowly and Despised Worms

Psalm 119:141 - "Though I am lowly and despised, I do not forget your precepts."

This evening, we began a new series in The Garage (our weekly Wednesday night minsitry) entitled, Four Things God Dares You To Do. Tonight's lesson focused on the word commit. God desires our commitment.

Have you ever been really committed to something? I'm sure you have. Most people have several things that they are committed to. Maybe it's a job, or school, or your family. Maybe it's a sport or a hobby. In comparison to everything else in life, God wants us to be committed to Him first and foremost.

As we talked about commitment we opened the Bible to the book of Revelation. We read Jesus' words to two of the seven churches from Revelation 2-3. We concluded by talking about the Church in Laodicea. Read what John records in Revelation 3:14-22:

"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."

Did you catch the gravity of Jesus' words? Jesus told a group who thought that they had it all together that they were wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. Wow! Talk about sobering!

David, understood the depravity of man. He announced to God that he was a lowly and despised man in Psalm 119:141. David was committed to rising above this low state by committing to follow God's statutes. What is it that you would need to commit to in order to rise abouve your low estate? I know that there are areas that all of us need to work on, but so does God. And, he loves taking the wretched, the pitiful, the poor, the blind and the naked and making them beautiful. To God be the glory for all the great things he has done; including taking each of us and transforming us from the spiritual worm into a new creation.

Dear God,

We want to commit. We want to move from being wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked to Your beautiful creation. Take our lives. Have them. Use them. And, change Your world.