Trusting Christ All The Way

Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will act.
–Psalm 37:3

Trust is such a hard thing to come by for, in some measure, it is the act of giving up, or rather giving over, to another. Trusting your neighbor to care for your dog while you are on vacation is the act of giving up your dog into the care of another. Trusting the locks on your door at night is the act of giving over attentive watchfulness through the night to the manufacturer, installer, and the structure of your home. To trust another is to relinquish control. But trust can appear more tenuous when the stakes seem higher.

The psalmist calls us to commit our way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will act. That is, rather than carving out a wonderful plan for your life, and perhaps there might be a little God-sized area for Him to neatly tuck into, the overarching aim of your life is to be committed to the Lord. And is this not the great act of trust? The greatest act of letting go of control? But what control do we really have anyway when even our very breath is dependent on the grace of God? Perhaps, then, committing our way to the Lord is simply acknowledging what is already the case: we are solely dependent upon Him for all things.

So depend on Him in all things great and small. This is the very thing we observe Jesus doing time and again in the Gospels and so we are in good company. Committing our way to the Lord does not mean that life will be easy and comfortable. But it does mean that wherever we are going, what lies at the end of the Way, is none other than Jesus Himself. Come what may in this world, when Jesus is our aim, when He is our end, that Way can only be named blessed.