Wavering or Committed?

We have been studying the book of Elijah over the summer and the final sermon on it was yesterday. The phrase from a song often sung in church keeps coming back into my head, "I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back". In the final story of Elijah, he is going to be taken to Heaven. Now, I don't think he actually realizes or knows for certain that literally his body and soul go up to heaven but his apprentice Elisha is confronted with this that his "Father figure" of Elijha is going to die and so 3 times he is told to leave by Elijha. Singleton says it was a test and he passed with flying colors. Literally, he got to see Elijah taken up into Heaven by a chariot of fire. Wow! Singleton brings up others in the bible whose committment to another has been tested. Ruth and Naomi. Ruth passed with flying colors too and she ended up being in the direct ancestry line of Jesus. Peter was tested three times when the cock crowed but as we know, he failed miserably. In thinking about this idea of wavering vs being committed to Jesus, I came up with three things that are an example of this concept within my own life. The first one was in plain site. When I pondered on the word committment, the first thing that came to my mind was my daughter Faith and her love for cats. She really is committed in her love for them or obessed if you want to call it that. But the fact remains, she never wavers in her love for all things cats. So a picture of her and her many cats will have to be on a faithbooking page. Another thing came to my mind, this morning as I lay in bed contemplating this concept and hearing that song in my head. The idea of wavering vs. committment is like a camera that can't get in focus. The camera operator has to manually make it focus on the object which is Jesus. So, of course, I thought of the many times I have taken a picture of a card creation of mine and it was out of focus and I had to make sure that it was in focus the second time around. The last thing that came to my mind before I figured it was time to get out of bed and get it all in writing before my memory wiped it away was how this past week the sermon from last week dwindle away to nothing until again I turned my focus back on Jesus when we watched the sermon from home yesterday because I was recovering from a stomach bug. I have this idea to faithbook each sermon for that very reason so I can keep my focus/committment not just on Sunday but everyday. I can be working on the sermon project or in the word, doing a bible study, something that gets me thinking about the Lord. Praying I do but I am talking about learning and growing and that takes active thinking which requires something from somewhere else for us to ponder on. Boy, have I been pondering since the sermon yesterday... I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back.