Learning to Commit Your Way to the Lord
The grace of releasing what we carry
I wonder what you are carrying today.
For many years, I had a habit of setting aside everything I was lugging around before I opened my Bible. I would tuck away the anxieties, the worries, the quiet fears — as if coming to God’s Word required me to arrive cleaned up and composed.
But the Bible is God’s breathed words, and when we come to Him and open His Word, we don’t have to leave anything at the door. We get to come with our full vulnerability, our burdens and pain, our anxieties and concerns. We also get to bring our joys, our triumphs, our excitement.
So before we go any further, I want to invite you to name what you are carrying — and to entrust it to Him.
Take Time to Pray
Lord, thank you that we can come to you with our burdens, our joys, and everything on our heart and mind. You willingly hold it all — and hold us each too. Reveal yourself to us through your Word as we tend our souls with truth. Amen.
Examine the Scripture
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Psalm 37:5–6
In the previous posts, we worked through the opening verses of this psalm and saw a series of imperative commands the psalmist calls us to obey. Today we encounter two more: commit your way to the LORD and trust in Him.
What does it mean to “commit your way”?
The Hebrew word behind commit is rich: it means to roll onto or roll away. This command is an invitation to take our way — our journey, our manner of life, the things we are carrying — and roll them onto the Lord.
And the verse immediately tells us why we can do this: because He is trustworthy, and He will act on our behalf.
What righteousness will He bring forth?
It can feel strange to read that God will “bring forth our righteousness.” If we are honest, it may be hard to believe there is any righteousness in us at all.
Romans 3:10 reminds us that there are none who are righteous — no, not one. We are all born out of right standing with a holy God. None of us can earn our way back on our own.
But because of God’s great mercy, He does something extraordinary: He imparts faith into our hearts so that we might trust Him for our salvation. For those who lived before Christ, they trusted by faith in the coming Messiah.
For us, living on this side of the cross, we trust in the Messiah who came — who paid for our sins and rose again. The righteous shall live by faith, Habakkuk tells us.
So the righteousness He will bring forth as the light? For those who live by faith in the Son of God, it is His righteousness. Our right standing with God is His rightness in us — not earned, not manufactured, but given.
Notice the Lessons
Two lessons, one choice
Looking back at the opening verses of Psalm 37, we see a beautiful picture: as we refrain from fretting, delight ourselves in God, and roll our way onto Him — He imparts His righteousness to us and gives us the desires of our redeemed hearts.
But it’s a choice.
We have to choose to commit our way to God rather than go our own way, led by our emotions or mood or circumstances. No matter what is swirling around us or within us, we can come to our good, covenant-keeping Father — who is personally committed to each of His children — and choose to roll what we are carrying into His hands.
Do what it says
Name the things you are holding. Then, with open hands, visualize dropping them into His hands.
Act by faith. Trust Him to shine His righteousness through you.
How will you roll what you are carrying onto Him — in your personal life, in your relationships, in your own heart and mind?
He is able, friend. We can trust Him. You don’t have to do this alone.
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Until next time, keep tending your soul.
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This lesson is such a great reminder today and always that we don't have to leave anything at the door because God knows us fully and never judges or condemns. Thank you, too, for the reminder to name what we are carrying and to entrust it to Him. This is the specific reminder I need today. Blessings to you, Mariel.