What is Your Level of Christian Commitment Today?

It’s interesting to me the levels of Christianity exhibited in various individuals. Some will say there aren’t levels of Christianity and in that I agree. A born-again Christian is a born-again Christian—absolutely. But when I speak of levels of Christianity maybe I should say levels of commitment.

Let me try to explain. We read these words in 1 John 1:6-8: “If we say, ‘We have fellowship with Him,’ and walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth. But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say, ‘We have no sin,’ we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”

At first glance, it is easy to see none of us actually lines up directly and completely with the commands in these verses. We fail in many regards on a fairly regular basis and yet the power of the blood of Jesus continues to cleanse and purify and make us righteous in God’s sight. But I think what we need to be drawing from these verses is the fact that we should be edging ever closer to becoming more and more “like Jesus” or “Christ-like.” As we advance forward from the moment of our conversion experience, change should be occurring within us regularly.

It grieves my spirit to talk to an individual who has been a “Christian” for many years and yet their life continues to follow the same path it was following before their conversion experience. Fact is, I have to question if they really had a conversion experience and if they did why are they not going through changes in their habits, lifestyles, close friends and companions? Why do they continue to carry on with life as normal?

God has called us to come out from among the people and things of this world and to be separate (2 Corinthians 6:17). He has commanded us to put off those things that associate us with the world like anger and malice and wrath and filthy communication to name a few (Colossians 3:8). Change should be an ongoing process as one progresses forward in the Christian walk.

So, what is your level of commitment today? What would be your level of Christianity, if you had to confess to it? Think about it…