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Proverbs 16:3 - Commit to The Lord to Establish Your Plans.

Proverbs 16:3 (NIV) Commit to the Lord 
whatever you do, and He will establish your plans.  

COMMENTARY PEARL

   We don't have enough help" my son 
complained to me one day after work. My son gets so 
frustrated because other employees he works with at the 
restaurant often don't come to work or just quit. Being 
shorthanded creates more work for everyone else and a 
stressful environment. Unfortunately, this lack of 
commitment is common in other areas as well. 
   I've noticed the same lack of commitment 
in team sports. As a parent, then grandparent 
of children on teams, I've seen how a player's 
lack of commitment to play the game, or even show 
up, affects others negatively and hurts the 
team's overall performance. 
   Commitment seems to be a bad word for 
many people in jobs, relationships, school, and 
family. 
   I'm thankful my parents instilled in me 
the importance of commitment. I'm also thankful 
my husband, Chuck, has the same principles. 
Recently, one of my sons commended Chuck on his 
devotion to our family and for all he's done for my 
children. In the ten years we've been married, we've 
had our trials, but we've pushed through 
together, whether it was difficult or not. Commitment 
isn't always easy. Yet God tells us to press 
forward, to finish the race, to commit our work to 
Him. Even Jesus kept his commitment to God the 
Father by doing the work God sent Him to do. 
Shouldn't we be as faithful to our own commitments? 
   Father, please keep me committed to the 
tasks before me, even when the going is difficult. 
Marilyn Turk [Walking in Grace 2021 Devotional by 
Guideposts and Zondervan] 

COMMENTARY 

There are different ways to fail to commit 
whatever we do to the Lord. Some people commit their 
work only superficially. They say the project is 
being done for the Lord, but in reality they are 
doing it for themselves. Others give God temporary 
control of their interests, only to take control 
back the moment things stop going the way they 
expect. Still others commit a task fully to the 
Lord, but put forth no effort themselves, and then 
they wonder why they do not succeed. We must 
maintain a delicate balance: trusting God as if 
everything depended on him, while working as if 
everything depended on us. Think of a specific effort 
in which you are involved right now. Have you 
committed it to the Lord? [Life Application SB] 

When a man recognizes his own need and turns 
to the Lord for guidance and help in every act 
and decision, then the powers of heaven come to 
his aid and enable him to carry out the 
decisions reached under the influence of the Holy 
Spirit. [SDA Bible Commentary] 

We must inevitably be under the control of 
the one or the other of the two great powers 
that are contending for the supremacy of the 
world. It is not necessary for us deliberately to 
choose the service of the kingdom of darkness in 
order to come under its dominion. We have only to 
neglect to ally ourselves with the kingdom of light. 
If we do not co-operate with the heavenly 
agencies, Satan will take possession of the heart, and 
will make it his abiding place. The only defense 
against evil is the indwelling of Christ in the 
heart through faith in His righteousness. Unless 
we become vitally connected with God, we can 
never resist the unhallowed effects of self-love, 
self-indulgence, and temptation to sin. We may leave off many 
bad habits, for the time we may part company 
with Satan; but without a vital connection with 
God, through the surrender of ourselves to Him 
moment by moment, we shall be overcome. Without a 
personal acquaintance with Christ, and a continual 
communion, we are at the mercy of the enemy, and shall 
do his bidding in the end.  {DA 324.1}   

LINK FOR FURTHER STUDY 

Proverbs 16:3 - How To Commit Your Works To 
The LORD. 

http://www.abible.com/devotions/2016/20160905-1757.html 

YOUR COMMENTS

If anyone has a paraphrase, commentary or 
testimony on this passage of Scripture, either 
personal or otherwise, I would be interested in 
hearing from you.  Thanks in advance and let's keep 
uplifting Jesus that all might be drawn to Him. Fred 
Gibbs  

LINKS WORTH CHECKING OUT

Most Important Decision in Life: 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/WGnEuGwvXqU?rel=0 

A Man without Equal by Bill Bright: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiVa7UoruIo 

Steps to Peace by Billy Graham: 
https://stepstopeace.org/ 

Seeking God Made Real: 
http://vimeo.com/31489782 

Prayer Made Real: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc8VdMV26VE 

LINKS FOR BIBLE STUDIES 

Lifting Up Jesus Bible Studies: 
http://www.liftingupjesus.net/ 

Amazing Facts Bible Studies: 
http://www.amazingfacts.org/bible-study/bible-study-guides.aspx  

Voice of Prophecy Discover Bible Study 
Guides: 
https://www.voiceofprophecy.com/study/discover 

Glow Tract Video Bible Studies: 
http://www.bibleresearch.info/ 

LINKS FOR BIBLE PROPHECY SEMINARS

Unlocking Bible Prophecies by Cami Oetman of 
Adventist World Radio: https://www.awr.org/bible 

Panorama of Prophecy with Pastor Doug 
Batchelor: https://www.panoramaofprophecy.com/  

Hope Awakens by John Bradshaw of IIW: 
https://itiswritten.tv/programs/hope-awakens 

Prophecies Decoded by Pastor Ron Clouzet: 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1A435C5373550657