"Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him and he will do this:
He will make your righteous reward
shine like the dawn, your
vindication like the noonday sun."
Our psalmist, David, was encouraging those under him to do the right thing and they would be blessed. The wicked would not in the long run prosper. However, he often wrote about how much he was suffering for doing the right thing, so he wasn't always as confident as these words would indicate. He had seen the miraculous work of the Lord and his faith was strong. We must be just as faithful today.
Matthew West has a song out entitled "Do Something". These are his words:
I woke up this morning, saw a world full of trouble...
thought how'd we ever get so far down?
How's it ever gonna turn around?
So I turned my eyes to heaven, I thought:
"God, why don't you do something?"...
He said, "I did, I created you."
The trouble is, we have all this other stuff going on. We're all about our kids or our jobs or our exercise and not enough about "committing our way" to Him and His plan. Do you remember doing Henry Blackaby's EXPERIENCING GOD and his premise that "God is at work and we need to join Him there"? How would our fears for this world change if we truly believed He was at work and that we were his hands and feet on earth? Read Psalm 37 and be encouraged by the number of positive statements David makes to those who do the righteous thing. Let us be all about letting Him do the leading.
For further study: Joshua 24:15, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 6:8, Jer. 29:11, Matthew 9:37-38, Romans 12:3-8, 1 Cor. 12:4-7, Eph. 2:8-10, Eph. 6:7, Phil. 1:3-6, Col. 3:23, Hebrews 6:10
Be blessed in your understanding of God's word.
Love,
Holly
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