“Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established” (Proverbs 16:3).
Great successes are not realized without great commitment. The best idea which blooms into a great plan will never come to fruition without the grit and perseverance supplied by commitment. Once the commitment of will has been made, your thoughts, plans, and priorities will be determined accordingly.
In the final weeks of Jesus’ ministry, Luke informs us that “when the time had come for Him to be received up that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem” (9:51). The Lamb of God did not accidentally “end up” in Jerusalem during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. He was God incarnate—a body prepared for Him—so He could do God’s will (Heb. 10:5-7). He committed Himself to a lifetime of obedience before He was even conceived in Mary’s womb. Once He had committed His works to Jehovah, His thoughts were ever upon doing God’s will (John 4:34, 6:38; Mat. 26:39-44).
Your good confession of Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, is a statement of personal faith and commitment. You are committing your life, your all to this grand, pre-eminent truth. It will be the taproot of your existence. It will be the nucleus of everything in your life’s orbit.
The importance of this commitment cannot be overstated.
