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)
After we have “delighted ourselves in the Lord” and He has put His desires into our hearts, the Holy Spirit exhorts us to “commit our way to the Lord.”
The word translated commit means to “roll”. We are to roll our way onto the Lord. The same idea is communicated by the Holy Spirit in the New Testament:
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6-7 (NKJV)
The word translated ‘casting’ means to throw upon (lit. or fig.). The same word is used in a natural, physical application in Luke 19:35.
Then they brought him to Jesus. And they threw their own garments on the colt, and they set Jesus on him. Luke 19:35 (NKJV)
In the same way that they threw their garments on the colt, so we are to cast our cares upon the Lord, to ‘roll’ our way onto the Lord.
As you do not know what is the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, so you do not know the works of God who makes all things. Ecclesiastes 11:5 (NKJV)
The Holy Spirit states two natural truths. We do not know or really understand the way of the wind or how bones are formed in the womb. In the same way that we do not understand the two aforementioned wonders, the Holy Spirit tells us that we do not know or understand the works of God.
This is not a rebuke. This is a statement of fact.
His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts than our thoughts. Isaiah 55:8 (NKJV)
He does great things, and unsearchable, marvelous thing without number. Job 5:9 (NKJV)
How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! Romans 11:33 (NKJV)
It is such a relief to know that my lack of specific understanding of what God is doing in my life or wants to do does not mean that I have some serious spiritual defect. I don’t have to understand everything that God is doing in my life. In fact, this Scripture says quite plainly that even when I think I know, I don’t.
While I may not know the works of God, I do know that He loves me and wants to do good to me because He IS good.
My lack of understanding of what He is doing or how He is going to accomplish His plans for my life is not an obstruction. He is able to guide my steps even when I don’t understand.
(Prov. 25:2) It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Why is it to God’s glory to conceal a matter?
To answer that question, we must first answer another one: Why does He conceal a matter?
The Scripture tells us that His greatness is unsearchable (Psa. 145:3); that His ways are past finding out (Rom. 11:33); that He does great things, and unsearchable, marvelous things without number (Job 5:9).
Yet we have trouble believing that He is real, that He actually cares for us, that He is watching over us. How can this be?
He conceals His greatness because of His great humility. As we behold His unsearchable greatness in eternity, we will begin to comprehend His great humility and will forever bow down and give Him glory.
