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Proverbs 16:3 - Commit Your Plans/Work To The Lord And They Will Succeed.Proverbs 16:3 (NLT) Commit your work to the LORD, and then your plans will succeed.Proverbs 16:3 (NCV) Depend on the LORD in whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3 (CWR) Commit your plans and decisions to the Lord, and under His guidance you will succeed. INTRODUCTION 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] COMMENTARY PEARLS 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] LINKS FOR FURTHER STUDY Proverbs 16:3 - How To Commit Your Works To The LORD. http://www.abible.com/devotions/2016/20160905-1757.html https://www.abible.com/devotions/2012/20120612-1117.html Proverbs 16:3 - Divine Relationship the Key. https://www.abible.com/devotions/2009/20090113-2014.html Proverbs 16:3 - Dependence Upon God Yields Success. https://www.abible.com/devotions/2005/20050209-1009.html https://www.abible.com/devotions/2004/20040812-0910.html LINKS WORTH CHECKING OUT https://abible.com/links/ |