Proverbs 16:3 (NIV)

³Commit to the Lord whatever you do,
and he will establish your plans.

Commit (galal: to seek and to trust) what we do (ma`aseh) to the Lord. Let’s look at what this word, “ma`aseh, includes:

1. deed, work

1. deed, thing done, act

2. work, labour

3. business, pursuit

4. undertaking, enterprise

5. achievement

6. deeds, works (of deliverance and judgment)

7. work, thing made

8. work (of God)

9. product

Have you noticed? This list I pretty comprehensive and includes all that we put our hands to and even that which we are pursuing! It includes that which has been achieved and that which we are dreaming into. We are to seek Him and trust Him with all of this.
We can seek Him and not, entirely, trust Him as we are walking it out. It might not look like we wanted it to. There may be roadblocks we hadn’t anticipated. It may be taking a lot longer than we would have ever dreamed. Seek and trust in the process, through the challenges and through the wilderness, through the lapses of time…..through the uncertainty. Because, truth be told sometimes things take some time. In our ever present world of instant gratification, I tend to want things NOW. Intellectually, we know that His timing is not our timing…but, as we are walking we are thinking that He must have forgotten, we must have heard wrong. Remember Abraham as he walked three days, with his son, to Mount Moriah, with no word from the Lord. He just kept walking, alone with his thoughts. He did not swerve to the right or to the left, he kept walking with his last promises and marching orders, issued from the Lord, close in his heart. Thank goodness for our cloud of witnesses, that can help us through our present times with examples from their lives.

We may not understand but we can keep walking in His promises and His last instructions. When we do this and we keep our eyes on Him and the works of our hands and the ambitions of our hearts- on Him….we are promised that our thoughts shall be established (KJV) . We commit the works of our hands, and He establishes our thoughts, or “machashabah”. This means that He establishes our plans and purposes.

I am reminded of a clock, with all of the gears dependent upon each other for it to work. As we commit the works of our hands and our dreams to Him it begins to move a cog….He, in turn establishes our plans and purpose and another cog is put in motion. This moves the hands of the clock, with a heavenly time keeper. He controls the time of these plans and purposes. I would like to encourage you today to not give up. Keep walking, keep dreaming, keep working-committing all of these things to Him. I have to believe that He receives them as a sweet aroma of obedience and blesses with purpose.

Let’s pray:

Thank you Lord for the Wisdom given in the Proverbs. Someone may feel that they are weary from the journey and ready to give up, turn around and throw in the towel. I pray that they would receive an encouraging wind today as You refresh their spirit and remind them of Your faithfulness. Thank you for planting dreams within us and unfolding them throught he commited works of our hands. Oh how we love You Father, Son and Spirit!