Being committed is the oppostie of the spiritual principle of being surrendered.

Commitment challenges you to a higher level of determination.
Surrendering is yielding your life to God’s purposes for you.
Commitment is saying that - I’ll do it better.
Surrendering is asking God to work through you.
Commitment is about me and my best effort.
Surrendering is waiting on God, listening to Him and asking Him to help me do it.
Commitment is me running the ship and staying at the controls.
Surrendering is letting the God who made me - have the controls of my life.
Commitment brings frustration and even burnout after a while because it’s all about me.
Surrendering helps you break through the barriers and experience continual inner peace, contentment, joy – regardless … of what’s going on around me.

Commitment brings burnout and disillusionment with what the Christian life is all about. It’s the spiritual principle of surrendering that produces the kind of spiritual life that the Bible talks about. We have to recognize that surrendering is a total response to God where God Himself and His daily provisions for us are appropriated in our own lives. Living life with God means that He wants us to respond to His promptings, leadings and spiritual nudges and ask Him for the wisdom, strength and power as we obey what He wants us to do.

How many of us are really satisfied with our spiritual lives? Why do we struggle so much with relating with God? The Bible tells us that God is love and that God is also personally interested in connect with us. So, why do we feel like God is a million miles away at times? We even try and try and try to connect with Him, serve Him and do whatever we can. But, yet we still feel empty.

I think we’re missing a basic spiritual principle: God doesn’t want us to commit. He doesn’t want commitment. He doesn’t want us to try to do it on own self-effort. Rather, for us to experience life with God in a way that brings inner peace, joy and contentment we need to rethink things. God doesn’t want us to commit to Him, He wants us to surrender instead.

Surrendering is submitting our whole being and lives to God so that He can begin to work out His purposes in our lives and through us.

Caring for people starts with the heart. What’s our motivation when it comes to caring for people? If love others or care for them out of a sense of duty, it can across as fake and inauthentic. God wants our motivation to be out of love for him and for others (Gal 5:6). When we experience God’s love in our own lives, loving others happens freely and naturally.

A local church should be known as the place where people can come and be real about what’s going on in their lives or family. But, far too often, a church is the last place where people feel safe to be themselves and open up. Too many people feel isolated - even in the church.

Now, some people don’t want anyone to know what’s really going on in their lives. Why? If you dig a little deeper, often there is a gap between what we want people to think about us and who we really are. It’s a world of living in secret. It’s a world that will destroy us because we were created for relationship. The big shock is that church is supposed to be a place where people feel totally accepted — where they are freely given a second chance. The local church is supposed to be place where broken people can find a place where they can be real and get help if they need it.