Commitment is God’s fundamental pattern for all of us. The shame is that we seem to have lost the plot. We have so favoured casual and transient relationships, personal independence, frantic work practices that we’re now ill equipped to deal with some of the tough times that lie ahead.
You see, tough times require powerful life skills learned from God, often through families. But what if we’ve chosen not to learn them? We’re going to have to change our ways.
What do we need?
We need to connect with God in ’09, through Jesus. That’s called faith. Out of faith comes hope. The confidence that there is a future now matter how black the present appears ”“ God’s in charge of our present and our future.
And from faith and hope come love. The sort of love which Jesus had when he entered the world to save it.