Day 22 - Commit the Heart

This year, 2016, can be summed up for me by the word trust. In living it out I have learned that trust looks like surrender: giving up, handing over, letting go.

Giving over the will, the plans, and the desires of the heart means trusting that God not only will make a way but that His way is good. Since the beginning His children have proved that to walk by faith is to have the assurance of things not seen (Heb 11).

This really is at the heart of the righteous. God is good and His love for us is bigger than we could ever imagine (Eph 3:17-19). A heart that knows this can fully surrender to and be abandoned to following after God in every part of life.

God has given each of us a territory, a domain, a terrain, in which we live that has certain boundaries. Right now it may feel like you are wandering through an open land as vast and endless as the desert. Or maybe your domain feels limited by elements outside of your control and you feel confined in some way.

In actuality, if we have put our trust in the Lord, then he is guiding us in the land he has designed for us, maybe even hedging us in so that we keep within the perimeters of his will for our lives. That gives me incredible peace as I place my trust in him.

Everything we do in commitment to Him we can go forward believing that He has our best interest in mind (Jer 29:11). We can trust that He will bring about the purist desires of our heart as we delight ourselves in Him.

Trust in the Lord and do good;

Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

Delight yourself in the Lord;

And He will give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the Lord,

Trust also in Him, and He will do it.

{Psalm 37:3-5}

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