The Sussex Christadelphians

06/14/2026

Commitment......

COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE

"The quality of your life will be determined more by the depth or your commitment to excellence than by any other factor." Vince Lombardy

Are we committed? Are we committed to excellence. Unfortunately, the world today tries to find the minimum that will do, and does just that. Can we please our Father in heaven if we do just the minimum?

What is the minimum and how does it compare to a commitment to excellence! To some the minimum might be attending just the memorial meeting on Sunday. Others might also include one or two prayers a day, while others might say that the minimum should include the daily Bible readings.

Rather than concentrating on the minimum that we feel we should do each day in our service to God, why don't we rather commit our lives to excellence and do all that we can do with all that we have right where we are?

What difference will this focus make in our everyday lives? Will a commitment to excellence drive us to serve our Lord more fervently than we have been? What will we do differently if we are committed to excellence?

If there is an ecclesial meeting going on, will we be there? If we hear that a member is sick, will we be there? Will we make time each day to do what we know we should? Without a conscious commitment to excellence, we tend to drift through life rather than being driven.

Solomon gives us a good definition of commitment to excellence: "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Whatever we decide to do, do it, and do it with all the energy and enthusiasm that we possess.

Half-hearted service is unacceptable to God. Do we think we can please Him if we just go through the motions? Malachi challenged the priests of his day who were offering the blind and the lame and the sick to God. Malachi asked them "Offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts."

The priests were self-righteous. They were surprised by this challenge and responded, "Wherein have we despised thy name?" Do we realize that we can also despise the name of our Heavenly Father by half-hearted obedience, if we give Him less than our best?

There is only one way to serve our Heavenly Father that will be acceptable to Him. That is by being committed to excellence and putting him first in our lives. Nothing else will do. If the Lord is second or fifth in our lives, He might just as well be nowhere, for He will not accept our sacrifice if we do not love Him with all our being. Jesus has told us "Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; "

Article from Bob LLoyds book Minute Meditations
Photo from Unsplash by Jordan

06/13/2026

COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE

"The quality of your life will be determined more by the depth or your commitment to excellence than by any other factor." Vince Lombardy

Are we committed? Are we committed to excellence. Unfortunately, the world today tries to find the minimum that will do, and does just that. Can we please our Father in heaven if we do just the minimum?

What is the minimum and how does it compare to a commitment to excellence! To some the minimum might be attending just the memorial meeting on Sunday. Others might also include one or two prayers a day, while others might say that the minimum should include the daily Bible readings.

Rather than concentrating on the minimum that we feel we should do each day in our service to God, why don't we rather commit our lives to excellence and do all that we can do with all that we have right where we are?

What difference will this focus make in our everyday lives? Will a commitment to excellence drive us to serve our Lord more fervently than we have been? What will we do differently if we are committed to excellence?

If there is an ecclesial meeting going on, will we be there? If we hear that a member is sick, will we be there? Will we make time each day to do what we know we should? Without a conscious commitment to excellence, we tend to drift through life rather than being driven.

Solomon gives us a good definition of commitment to excellence: "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Whatever we decide to do, do it, and do it with all the energy and enthusiasm that we possess.

Half-hearted service is unacceptable to God. Do we think we can please Him if we just go through the motions? Malachi challenged the priests of his day who were offering the blind and the lame and the sick to God. Malachi asked them "Offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts."

The priests were self-righteous. They were surprised by this challenge and responded, "Wherein have we despised thy name?" Do we realize that we can also despise the name of our Heavenly Father by half-hearted obedience, if we give Him less than our best?

There is only one way to serve our Heavenly Father that will be acceptable to Him. That is by being committed to excellence and putting him first in our lives. Nothing else will do. If the Lord is second or fifth in our lives, He might just as well be nowhere, for He will not accept our sacrifice if we do not love Him with all our being. Jesus has told us "Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; "

Article from Bob LLoyds book Minute Meditations
Photo from Unsplash by Jordan

06/11/2026

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06/06/2026

June....

June is the month of graduations and weddings. Each marks the beginning of a new way of life for those involved. Graduates, brides and grooms are all embarking with starry eyes and lofty dreams on the sea of life. What these young people lack in experience they make up in hope and enthusiasm Paul told Timothy to "let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers in word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity." Young people who are examples in these areas should certainly not be despised just because of their age. It is also important for the youngsters to respect their elders. Paul instructs Timothy to "rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father." God commanded the children of Israel saying "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God."

Wasn't it Mark Twain who left home as a young man thinking his father knew very little and returned later to discover how much his father had learned in such a few short years? Young people need to remember that many Junes have come and gone since their elders graduated and married and the trials and experiences of these years have taught valuable lessons that can't be learned in school. Those just starting out can benefit from those who have experienced the rough seas of life. "The face of the old man" can also be encouraged and enthused by the vigor and spirit of the youth.

There is no war between the young and the old. Each age has its advantages and trials. Each can help the other, and neither will despise the other if all of us are examples in love.

Young people today face conditions that were unheard of in their parents' youth, yet human nature has not changed. Paul's advice to Timothy to "flee youthful lusts" has a stronger message today than ever before because sin has become sophisticated. Paul warned Timothy that perilous times would come and they are now here! Men (and Paul does not confine it to young men) shall be lovers of their own selves, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Today pleasure has become the god of the world. Pleasure itself is not a sin, but unfortunately most sins are pleasant to the natural man. Moses as a young man chose to suffer affliction with the people of God, rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Even pleasures which are not sinful become sin when we love them more than we love God. True pleasure, the really worthwhile pleasures are found in the Lord as David exclaimed, "Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore."

To the young people of all ages we want to re-emphasize Paul's advice to Timothy who sought pleasure in the things of the Lord by giving attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine, meditating upon these things which have lasting profit for as Paul says, in doing this we will both save ourselves and those that hear us.

We may be graduating, setting up housekeeping or thinking of retiring, it doesn't matter who we are, where we are, or how old we are, let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: "Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." If we are wise enough to do this then we shall have pleasures for evermore.

Article by Bob Lloyd from his book Minute Meditations
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