I am not one to shy away from healthy confrontation but it doesn’t mean I’m not left feeling uncomfortable. The pinnacle moment of this day happened to be in the last 20 minutes when I felt called to stand up for something that was important to me.
It was a simple issue of commitment. I wasn’t calling anyone out on anything that I wasn’t calling myself out on as well but I knew that it needed to be addressed in order to receive the full benefit of the program. In my oh so very humble and meek opinion ( 😉 ) I believe the enemy squeezes his way into things that were meant to be good…programs and groups that God formed to benefit you personally, and the community as a whole, but as we get comfortable that commitment to God’s call begins to falter. We all agree we need to ‘re-prioritize’ and decide what is a ‘good’ commitment that benefits on a multitude of levels and what are the commitments that appear to be good but only hold up the facade of looking good to others or are meant for self adulation.
It’s not easy to go through this process of weeding out the good and the good facade. I’m sure I didn’t make any one especially happy pointing out the obvious. But I needed too. This commitment to this particular group was taken in an effort to benefit my family as a whole. With the world the way it is today, we need all the support we can get and to show our kids that commitment to our marriage and family is important.
I will say, on a side note, I’m sure as the days wear on this year I’ll have another entry that goes touches OVER commitment and OVER volunteering and coming to terms that we don’t have to be the ‘all and end all’ for every school, church, friend, organization etc. That we CAN say NO… but that’s another issue.
Tonight, I knew that Neal and I had made a commitment to this group and it IS a calling from God to continue and I didn’t want to see that slip by us because the enemy got in the way. DISCERNMENT is the key word tonight. To commit to what God has called you to and to now how to recognize what is the ‘real deal’ and not a facade.
Blessings
Shannon