Jul 22
Trust also in Him
Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. Psalm 37:4-5 (NKJV)
Committing our way to the Lord is the beginning of the adventure. The Holy Spirit follows this injunction with and exhortation to “trust also Him”.
Our walk of faith has only begun when we “commit our way to the Lord.” Derek Prince said, “Commit describes a single act of faith. Trust describes a continuing attitude that follows the initial act of committing. After that, God takes over: He will do it.”
For most, it is comparatively easy to “commit our way” to Him. However, trust is an entirely different matter. When it seems that the Lord is delinquent in fulfilling His promises, we are faced with a test: Do we continue to trust in Him or do we ‘take matters into our own hands’?
It is very sad to witness how prone I am to fretting-over my future, my success or lack thereof, my reputation, of being misunderstood, etc. Fretting eventually leads to unbelief. My heart starts accusing God: that He is against me, that He is frustrating me, that His promises are not true, at least not for me, etc., etc.
He is not against me. He is carefully orchestrating my circumstances to bring about what He cherishes the most: a heart that trusts Him.
“When we bear the burden of our own affairs ourselves, and are chastised with anxiety and want of success, and with envying the ungodly who prosper better than we do, the best remedy is first to do our duty, as we are enabled in the use of the means, then cast the care of the success over on God, as the ploughman doth when he hath harrowed his land; and let the burden of it rest on God, and let us not take it off Him again, but put our mind to rest, resolved to take the harvest in good part, as he shall send it. David Dickson