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Meditation – April 24, 2009
Posted on Friday, April 24th, 2009
Scripture: Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16.3
Prayer: Help me to understand further commitment.
Response: That isn’t your real question. You are reconsidering you can do one thing – like commitment – and receive the hoped for result, leading you to believe that you exercise an element of control in the process. Cleanse your mind of such thinking because it is indeed your mind and ego that become involved and I want your heart to be involved exclusively.
Commitment is of the heart. In commitment there is no attachment to a hoped for outcome. In commitment there is conscious trust. In commitment of the heart there is hope. In this verse you are encouraged to restore balance in your being. The verse is about new beginnings each moment. A life of commitment to the Lord is a life where all your plans succeed in the surprise of grace. There is no ledger to be maintained, no averages of success to calculate, simply acceptance and routine to be cultivated.
A life that is committed to the Lord is one that reflects a harmony that flows without attempting to control immovable forces, but rather dances, as it were, among what had previously been considered contrary forces. Instead of meeting the wave straight on, a life of commitment is riding that wave to the shore – even if that shore is far distant.
All for this morning.
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