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2015 J. Neely
Psalm 37:5
5 Commit [galal] thy way [derek] unto the LORD [Y@hovah];
trust [batach] also in him; and he shall bring
it to pass [`asah]. KJV-Interlinear
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Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act. ESV
To commit yourself to the
Lord is more than an emotional feeling, it is a genuine conscious compliance
with Gods mandates and expectations, from you. And you cannot know those
expectations or even the mandates unless you learn them. Too many try to substitute their own
emotional rational, for Gods rules and they fail miserably in their spiritual
life, never figuring it out until it is too late.
Too many try to ignore
Gods rules and thus believe they can get by without repercussions.
Too many try to make up
their own rules, calling it science or philosophy or their own freedom to
choose and decide for themselves.
But that is why God gave
us instruction and doctrine, so that we can learn and know and understand the
truths of life, and then comply with His will, and thus commit ourselves to His
pattern of life.
To commit, means to roll
a heavy burden off of ourselves and onto God.
And when we say God, we of course mean Christ. He is the carrier of burdens and the doer of
deeds in our behalf.
Our ability to discover
truth is far too great. That is why we
need a lens to look through in order to see truth, and Bible doctrine is that
lens, to help us see the realities of life, the real facts, and avoid the theories
and invented philosophies.
The term way, means the
act of treading, or traveling or going.
It refers to our path in life, our manner in which we live, to our whole
course of life, in life, including all of our conduct, plans and intentions.
Trust, means to have
confidence, to be bold, to be secure.
Therefore you commit your entire existence and priority to learning and
knowing Gods will. Which is learned, by
learning doctrine. Your boldness comes
from the doctrine in your soul, which you learn, which builds up understanding,
orientation to life, and therefore confidence, and finally faith, the real
spiritual muscle of your essence.
But of course you have to
listen or receive instruction in order to learn. To ignore a daily study, which is your daily
meal of food for the soul, is to learn nothing.
But to pursue it, is to learn and know and to succeed without exception.
And he will bring it to
pass, means that Christ will bring your life to its proper issue or destiny or
completion.
God has a plan for your
life. He presents that plan to you, but
you have to learn and grow up in your spiritual life. Doing that, which means
nothing more than you learning and using what you learn, then God does all of
the rest. He competes your soul with the
doctrine you listen to or read and learn.
He reinforces your understanding and faith through maturity. You accomplish all of this while in
fellowship (confession to God the Father required).
In other words, you do
nothing but learn and think, and God does all of the rest.
The Father laid out the
plan and process. The Spirit guides you
through the process. And Christ is the
Word, which is inside of you (once you have learned it – namely Christ in you),
and you merely think. And then do of
course according to your thinking.
Two of the most important
things that you do, are to confess so as to reside in fellowship, and to listen
or read from instruction.
And everything that you
do while in fellowship is credited to you as spiritual production. This is the sum total of your worship, or
life in Christ.
This guarantees for you a
phenomenal destiny and reward for all of eternity.
You will even learn and
acquire some degree of peace and a relaxed mental attitude while in this life,
despite the rumblings of the world and all of its attempts to derail you. But your choice to study doctrine and learn,
will always override the world.
Through good choices
(learning doctrine), the doors of opportunity open wide.
Through bad choices (not
learning doctrine), the doors close in your face.
No matter what your
status is in this life, with this compliance in doctrine, your success for
eternity will be wildly beyond your imagination. And that is Gods guarantee. He will bring it to pass. He will see to it, that it is accomplished.
