Psalms
37:5
"Commit
thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to
pass."
When
you have a need, a problem, or concern, you simply commit
it to the Lord. You take it to Him, and you leave it there, you do
not hang on to it. If you hang onto that letter, it never will
get into the mail, because you have still got it. But if you let it
go then it is committed. If we are not wholly committed to Him, how on
earth could He be committed to us? This was Israel's problem also,
they were to have been wholly committed, to become a holy nation, but
failed to remain so. They had been told to be holy as recorded in
Leviticus 11:45, 19:2, 20:7, 26, Deuteronomy 7:6 and the list
continues but they failed to understand Him. They did not take it to
heart which is what the difference is between the old and the New.
When we take His Word to heart, then and there is the change of
repentance. And repentance becomes a living reality because of what the next verse we like states.
Psalms
37:7a
"Rest
in the LORD,..."
Do
you know what it means to rest? It means to relax. Turn all those
concerns over to Him, do not hang on to your problems. Rest only
comes after the death of self because in the resurrection self,
self-will, self-rule remain buried. The nature of Satan
is destroyed and God's nature, which is His character is not
resisted. For we rather have His, "Rest in the Lord."
Psalms
37:7b
"...and
wait patiently for him:
See,
we are a society of instant gratification. Give it to me now Lord,
I’m in a hurry! No we have to learn to "wait patiently
for him."
Psalms
37:7b
"...fret
not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the
man who bringeth wicked devices to pass."
Boy
we see that every day don’t we? We look at the young ungodly world
around us, and all their prosperity, and wealth, and wonder, "Why?"
Don’t worry about it, do not become overly concerned because those are things that are in God’s
hand. But our responsibility is to commit our way to the Lord,
trust in Him and let Him bring it to pass in His own time and in His
own way. Some times it takes a lot longer than we think it should, It may
take years, but God will do it in His own time and way.
I
must express my concern here which is this, there are may
distractions bombarding us every moment of every day, all playing for
our attention. And when we as children and young adults do not know
to resist evil we become over whelmed by these distractions and learn
to hear only the voice of our own flesh. This voice can at times
sound so spot on and right that we do not discern error even when we
are older. Now I am not talking here about being born again or even
having acquired redemption, but rather as mere humans. Then when we
come to ourselves we do not know or discern the difference between
the Holy Spirit's prompting and the voice of the flesh. Why? Because
who out there knows for sure how to discern the difference, not those
in our churches because sadly they too, are in the same condition of
being mere humans. How and why can I say this and know without
question that this is a true statement? The answer is found in
2Corinthinas 6 and is related to what God told Moses as revealed in
Leviticus and Deuteronomy and the passages of scripture I listed
earlier. This can be seen in verses 10-7:4 of 2Corinthians 6 and the
setting apart of God's kingdom people from the corruption of religion
(the spirit of Belial) that is in the world. When we take the
synoptic gospels and set apart all the kingdom of heaven and of God
scriptures with the complete thought, we will begin to understand and
know the message of His kingdom restored within our soul. Which was
to have happened to Israel but did not. They were distracted and
pulled away from the appointed end. That being the Light and Glory of
God as the head and not the tail, which they became.
Back
to Ephesians chapter 5 for a few moments in verse 5. And again Paul
brings it back to the opposite side of the coin. In the next verse are listen the perverse things of the character of a mere human which
the professing Christian should not nor practice as a lifestyle. But if so,
then the professing Christian better take heed by reading and studying some of these things. He/she
better be about self examination to find out what spirit is driving
them. Remember we are living in a society where these things are a
norm.
Ephesians
5:5
"For
this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous
man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of
Christ and of God."
This
is plain language isn’t it? How can people say, "Well don’t
you think the Grace of God will be sufficient?" No, not in this
case. My Bible says, "They will not be in the Kingdom of Christ! These are the characteristics of Belial and are known by Religion, a familiar spirit, which is common to all and is so common that he is embraced and accepted as the norm.
Did you catch what Paul tells us the whoremonger is, an unclean
person, a covetous person, they are idolaters and have nothing of
value in the kingdom, they have no place in God. In fact turn on over
to the book of Colossians chapter 1, verses 12 and 13. These are all
the same words that Paul is using throughout his letters.
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