Devoted.  To express special devotion to God, a person could voluntarily make “a vow of separation to the Lord as a Nazirite…” (Num.6:2).  The vow included avoiding grape products, no haircuts and no contact with the dead.  How would this help?  The Nazirite vow enabled a person to avoid distractions of amusement (wine) or over-attention on personal appearance (grooming) or an attachment to this world (corpses).  The emphasis was on leaving the typical pattern of life in order to live a new life, one devoted to God.  This type of vow could have possibly been an introduction to a later call by Jesus to those who would be his devoted ones: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.” (Luke 9:23-24).  Devoting your life to Jesus Christ involves removing distractions from your life, in order to know him better.  He is worth it!

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