Delight & Commit

Ok, following up on yesterday's Psalm 37:3 post:

37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee
the desires of thine heart.
37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in
him; and he shall bring [it] to pass.

Yesterday, I wrote how we need to Trust in the LORD, and how He is worthy of our trust because of Who He is, and what He has done.

Wednesday, I wrote on Joy, and how we should have Joy in the Lord, and in the things of the Lord. Psalm 37:4 speaks of the same thing: Delight yourself in the Lord. When we are doing the things of the Lord, and doing them with Delight, God will "give us the desires of our hearts." Does that mean He will just give you whatever you want? Well, Yes, because your desires will be in line with what God wants - because you're delighting yourself in Him. But, also, that verse may be saying that when you delight yourself in the Lord, that He will give your heart the desires that it should have. He will give the desires of your heart.

Verse 5, says, Commit thy way unto the Lord. This is the thought for today. To Commit is to give something over to something us. We commit our time to something, by giving our time to whatever it is. We commit our lives to our spouses - we give them over to them. So, to Commit our way unto the Lord, is to give it over to Him. How do we do that?

1) We only give something to Him that He would want - We don't want to give Him our way, if our way is walking "in the counsel of the ungodly," etc. So we will only commit our way unto Him if it is in the right direction - not sure what that is? I believe God's word, the Bible, will act as a lamp unto your feet, and a light unto your path... Yeah, I'm pretty sure about that.

2) We give Him our way by acknowledging Him in all our ways - Proverbs 3:6, "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." Boy, I fall short of this one - acknowledging God in all of my ways. I see 'acknolwedging' as being first of all walking with a conscience towards God, having Him in mind, praying without ceasing, a constant communion with Him. I also see 'acknowledging' as making mention of Him to those around you in your way. We acknowledge those that have helped us out in something - well, we should acknowledge God - if He is helping us out in our ways...

I'm sure there are more ways to "Commit thy way unto the LORD..." Maybe you all could help -

The result of Trusting in the Lord, Delighting in Him, and Committing your way unto Him: He will bring your ways to pass. The desires that you have at that point, and the paths that you want to take after you've trusted, delighted and committed - He will bring them to pass! But that means we have to stop trusting in the arm of the flesh, stop delighting in the things of ourselves instead of those of God, and give our way over to the LORD...