Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established (Prov. 16:3).
Committing our works, our doing, our plans--ourselves--once and for all to the hands of God takes away every cause for worry and concern. Our thoughts will be established, because we know that we belong to the Lord and He is watching over us, guiding us, sustaining us. The Scriptures declare: "As [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Prov. 23:7). And again: "Out of the...heart the mouth speaketh" (Matt. 12:34).
Someone has said, "Whatever is in the well of our thoughts will come up in the bucket of our speech." When our thoughts are established, our works will be guided. Everything, then, depends upon the committal of the life to God. Our thoughts' being established will react upon our works, so that altogether we shall be His. We must remember that thoughts are things, or at least become things.
The last words of Johann Herder, court preacher at Weimar and one of the most brilliant German authors, were: "Refresh me with a great thought."
After enumerating many excellent and praiseworthy things, the apostle commands, "Think on these things" (Phil. 4:8).
Charles Dickens based his lifework upon this principle: "Whatever I have tried to do in my life, I have tried with all my heart to do well. What I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely. Never to put one hand to anything on which I would not throw my whole self; never to affect depreciation of my work, whatever it was, I find now to have been golden rules."
When our works are committed to God, our thoughts will be established. We will do all that we have to do with our might, whether it be great things or small. Then life can be only a success. Have we committed our works to the Lord?
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands" (Ps. 90:17).
Committing our works, our doing, our plans--ourselves--once and for all to the hands of God takes away every cause for worry and concern. Our thoughts will be established, because we know that we belong to the Lord and He is watching over us, guiding us, sustaining us. The Scriptures declare: "As [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Prov. 23:7). And again: "Out of the...heart the mouth speaketh" (Matt. 12:34).
Someone has said, "Whatever is in the well of our thoughts will come up in the bucket of our speech." When our thoughts are established, our works will be guided. Everything, then, depends upon the committal of the life to God. Our thoughts' being established will react upon our works, so that altogether we shall be His. We must remember that thoughts are things, or at least become things.
The last words of Johann Herder, court preacher at Weimar and one of the most brilliant German authors, were: "Refresh me with a great thought."
After enumerating many excellent and praiseworthy things, the apostle commands, "Think on these things" (Phil. 4:8).
Charles Dickens based his lifework upon this principle: "Whatever I have tried to do in my life, I have tried with all my heart to do well. What I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely. Never to put one hand to anything on which I would not throw my whole self; never to affect depreciation of my work, whatever it was, I find now to have been golden rules."
When our works are committed to God, our thoughts will be established. We will do all that we have to do with our might, whether it be great things or small. Then life can be only a success. Have we committed our works to the Lord?
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands" (Ps. 90:17).
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