Commit Your Spirit
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Originally written by Charles H. Spurgeon, published in “Mornings & Evenings,” entry for August 27th, PM.
Updated to modern English by Darren Hewer, 2009.
“Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.” Psalm 31:5, KJV
These words have frequently been uttered by faithful people in their hour of departure. The object of a person’s main concern in life and death should not be their body, or their wealth, but their spirit. This is your most precious treasure, and if it is safe, all is well. How can your current physical maladies compare with your eternal soul?
A believer will commit their soul to the hand of God. We came from Him, are His own. He has sustained us, and He is able to keep us. And so it is appropriate that He should receive us back to Him.
All things are safe in God’s hands. What we entrust to the Lord will be secure, both now and until the end of days towards which we are fast approaching. It is peaceful living, and glorious dying, resting in the care of heaven. At all times we should commit all we have to Jesus’ faithful hand. Then, even when life hangs on a thread, and adversities multiply as the sands of the sea, our soul will dwell at ease, and delight itself in quiet resting places.
“Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.” God’s redemption is solid ground for having confidence. David didn’t know about Jesus’ death and resurrection as we do, but even his imperfect knowledge cheered him. And won’t eternal redemption even more sweetly console us? Past deliverances assure us of present assistance. What the Lord has done, He will do again. He never changes. He is faithful to His promises, and gracious to His saints. He will not turn away from His people.
“Though Thou slay me I will trust, Praise Thee even from the dust, Prove, and tell it as I prove, Thine unutterable love.
Thou mayst chasten and correct, But Thou never canst neglect; Since the ransom price is paid, On Thy love my hope is stay’d.”
Question: Have you committed your life to God?
What a great testimony and great illustrations of trust. Thanks Pianerman09.
I remember wearing a T-Shirt which stated, “Christians should be COMITTED!”
and some I’ve met SHOULD BE! lol bUT the truth is that in the intended meaning many/most aren’t. We are, often, comitted to doing things our own way in the sense of the Scripture, “all we like sheep have gone astray and turned, all of us, to our own way” When we are missint out on the very best that God has for our lives. Satan would have s to believe, somehow, that we are going to receive much less by comitting our entire selves to God andd we hold out for ourselves like Ananias and Saphira did in Acts. This is the opposite to truly Trusting in God and it leads to the message of telling God, sadly, that He just isn’t, after all, TrustWorthy. Woouldn’t we be very hurt and upset if one of our Family members told us that? And showed by their actions that we were not trust worthy? Well I believe that God is no different! I grew up in New England where the winters were very cold. The nearby Ponds would freeze over and soon people could be seen venturing out on the ice. At the beginning, one would just step out a few inches, ready to recoil back onto dry ground at the slightest cracking sound. Walking on “thin ice” If the cracking sound didn’t happen, then one would step out further and further until one was out towards the middle, skating freely and confident that the ice was thick enough to support. Then the ultimate test would happen as a vehicle would venture out and drive confidently on the ice in the middle of the pond. Also at the beginning, only one or two would dare to venture out the others would stay back on the dry ground until they had seen people going out safely. Only then would they dare to venture out on that, could be, dangerous ice. I think we do the same with God, comitting our way to Him little by little, and we see, clearly, that He will sustain us in the middle of adversity, and bear us up in His Loving Arms until we, like the heavy vehicles, are confident of His Proven Love and Care for us.Sometimes we think we hear a deep “Crack!” and we want to go running back to “dry ground”. I remember that lovely old song we often sang in church, “Jesus Jesus how I trust Him How I’ve Proved Him oer and oer, Jesus Jesus, Precious Jesus, Oh for Grace to Trust Him more!” There is a place in the runway at the airport that is called the place of commitment where the pilot, before that place, can refuse for some reason to fly the plane and can stay on the ground bringing the plane to a stop. However after reaching that place of “commitment” he must continue nose up at full speed or the plane will, simply, crash! I think that in my life I need to Trust God with that Wreckless Abandon, commiting my life, finances, marriage, health, desires and everything to the loving and capable Hands of My God, much much more than I do. He is Worthy. Thank you for that inspirational Devotional, it has blessed me and I am ready, now, to commit this day unto the Lord and all that goes with it! “Commit thy way unto the Lord; Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass” :-)