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Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass.
Psalm 37:5

What shall God bring to pass? The thing that lies deepest in the heart—“your way.” Does not ‘your way’ lie deepest in your soul—the path that God has led, the path that God is now leading you by? You may be troubled in your soul, doubting and fearing in your mind, distressed in your feelings; you may sink down to the lowest point that a child of God can sink to; yet that way, in which you are so deeply sunk, if the Lord enables you from time to time to commit it to Him, and trust in Him, He will bring to pass above what your heart desires.

Look at the movements of your heart God-ward; look at your predicaments, temptations, and trials; look at that which rolls backwards and forwards in your mind, that which is tossed to and fro on the waves of your anxious bosom—what lies nearest, dearest, and deepest—let honest conscience speak. That, whatever it be, the Lord tells you, and sometimes enables you to commit, to trust to Him.

Now whatever it be—so committed and so trusted, the Lord has declared in His unerring Word of truth, He “will bring it to pass;” He will fulfill it when His time has arrived. Does darkness envelope it? do mountains of difficulty stand up in the way of its fulfillment? Never mind; God will bring it to pass in the face of all, over mountains and through difficulties, in spite of, and in the midst of, all surrounding obstacles. He “will bring it to pass,”—that which lies deepest in your heart, nearest your affections, and that which you are enabled in the actings of living faith sometimes to commit into the hands of the Lord God Almighty.

To the reader…

What lies deepest on your heart today? Then honestly consider what is being tossed to and fro within you: your cares, your temptations, what is dearest to you. Perhaps you have sunk low, doubt and fear dwell in your soul, and mountains of difficulty stand between you and the fulfilment of God’s promises. It then seems as if your way leads nowhere at all.

It is that very way you may commit to the Lord. You cannot always do it; sometimes He enables you to only now and then. But of what is thus committed to Him, He has said in His unchanging Word: “He shall bring it to pass.” It is not your strength that decides, but His faithfulness. Over mountains and through difficulties, in the midst of all obstacles, He will fulfil it in His time. So place what lies nearest your heart into the hands of the Almighty Lord.

With warm regards,
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