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22Those are just two of dozens and dozens of fantastic promises in Scripture where God says if you'll just put your life in my hands, I'll bring you blessings and benefits you can't even imagine%u2014if you'll just trust me. The more you commit to me, the more I will accomplish through you.Are those not good reasons; are those not great reasons to commit your life to Christ? I can't think of any better reason. So immediately somebody says, \do it then? Why doesn't everybody commit to Jesus?\Christ because of the resistance to commit, three of which are discussed below. Resistance to commitment to Christ:1. Nearsightedness-failure to take the long look.We don't look 20 or 30 years down the road, much less from an eternal perspective. We just tend to live for now. C. S. Lewis wrote something excellent in one of His books, \wrong view. We tend to think of ourselves as human beings who have a spiritual dimension, when in fact, we are spiritual beings simply passing through the human experience. The big picture is, I'm a spiritual being, and I'm going to live forever somewhere. But, we get nearsighted and see ourselves packaged in the flesh. Nearsightedness keeps our focus on what's the easy thing, the fun thing and the convenient thing, ignoring our long-term values.Jesus said '\things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.'\right on the head. We focus on the urgent, not the important. We lose sight of those real values that we evaluated in the %u201cWhat Are My Values%u201d lesson. We stopped asking, \I'm 90 years old and looking back, what is it that I most want to have done? How do I most want to be remembered?\I love the story of John Skulley. In the mid-70s, he was the president and chief executive officer of Pepsi Cola. He became president at age 34. He had his face on the cover of every major magazine. At age 42, he was on top of the world making more money than he could ever spend if he doled it out every second. A fellow by the name of Steve Jobe had started up a fledgling little computer company called, Apple Computer. He had taken it about as far as he could take it. He knew this man John Skulley was the man who could take it to heights as yet unperceived. He begged, and begged, and begged, and begged him to come, but Skulley was making too much money. Finally, in a New York penthouse, he looked at John and he asked him this fateful question: \making sugared-water, or do you want to change the world?\his nearsightedness, and he did take Apple Computer to unprecedented heights.