God is committed to me.  This is a thought that has overwhelmed me lately.  That the God of the universe is not just interested in my life and not just involved in my life, but He is committed to my life.  In Romans 8:32 we are told, “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”  It’s kind of like being committed to and protecting an investment.  If I had invested in something, I would be very careful to take care of it, to protect it and even to enhance or better it.  And the more I had spent or invested in it the more precious it would be to me.  The reason that I can be so assured of the commitment of God to my protection and enhancement is the amazing price he was willing to pay for me - the price of His own Son.  If He would spare His own son, then why would He spare anything else to have me and keep for His own?

Where this comforts me the most is in the area of my own personal growth and sanctification.  God is committed to me changing and growing to be more like His Christ.  He promises this same commitment to His whole church in Ephesians 5:25-27, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;  That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,   That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”  And He promises it to me individually in Colossians 1:21-22, “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:”  Wow, what a commitment! 

Now the question is really having the faith to believe it and appropriate this promise into my life.  I mean, how confident can I really be in this commitment.  Well, Paul says in Philippians 1:6 that we can be very confident.  “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”