--Commit your works to the LORD, And your thoughts will be established. -- Proverbs 16:3 ---The scriptures declare that if our thoughts are to be established, we must first commit our works to the Lord. The great concerns of our souls must be committed to the grace of God, with a dependence upon and submission to the conduct of that grace; all our outward concerns must be committed to the providence of God, and to the sovereign, wise, and gracious disposal of that providence. Roll your works upon the Lord; roll the burden of your care from yourself to God. Lay the matter before him by prayer. Make your works known unto Him, not only the works of your hand, but the workings of your heart; and then leave it with Him, by faith and dependence upon Him, submission and resignation to Him. Both our bodily and spiritual interests will be safe when we place them in the Lords hands, and, through the peace which will result from our faith, our thoughts will become steady, calm, resolute, and full of joy. We may then be easy when we resolve that whatever pleases God, pleases us. Paul, perhaps, expresses this attitude best as he declares, “For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.”---q.t.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 03:40:24 +0000
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