"The Glory Road" -2

"Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass." (Psalms 37:5) To begin with, we are committed; whether we like it or not, once we have accepted Jesus Christ into our hearts and we have in truth been born again, we are on that glory road. As simple as this might sound, it is just like when the disciples got into that boat with Jesus, and Jesus said, "Let us go unto the other side of the lake." (Luke 8:22-25) There is the commitment of the disciples of entering into the boat with Jesus, and the promise of Jesus that they would be going to the other side together; just as there is our commitment to surrender our lives unto Jesus, and then His promise to us in the eternal life that waits on the other side. And then there are the storms; just as with the disciples, we too panic and freak out in the storms, yet Jesus, He is resting; resting because He has already defeated sin and death for us, and He is waiting for us to rest in Him; just as Jesus, who was trying to get some rest, hearing His disciples crying about that silly storm, He was just wishing that they would shut up and get some rest themselves; until finally, He rose up from His rest, rebuked the storm, asked them, "Where is your faith?"; kind of like saying, Now get some rest! This word for "commit" is used more in a negative way than in a positive all throughout the Old Testament; the general idea is like saying commit sin, or commit a trespass; which, if you really think about it, committing sin or trespass against God is the opposite of committing to God; which means, that there is a good way to commit, and there is a bad way to commit, as simple as that might sound. The word is most associated with 'roll', as in TO ROLL; something that requires effort, and transfers from one spot to another. Now, as if it couldn't be more simple; it's like rolling everything over to God, just as if you would make a big ball of all your life, your concerns, your sins, whatever it is that is attached to this life on this world; and you push that big ball over to God, and say, Here Lord, it's all Yours! And after you do that, then you trust Him with it all; no longer is it your concern, because you have given everything over to Him. Your only concern is that of getting to the other side; but you no longer worry about getting there, it's all about the ride, because He has promised to get you to the other side; which means that we just trust in Him, and that means, that we have confidence in Him... "For God, who commanded the light to shine in the darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body." (2 Corinthians 4:6-10)