Read the transcript from today's video devotional.
This is very straightforward. You've got a call here and you have a promise. You've got a call to obedience. What is the psalmist calling us to do? He says, "Commit everything you do to the LORD." Commit everything you do to Him and trust Him.
Why Do You Do What You Do?
You have to ask yourself why. Why do you do everything that you do? Another way to ask it is, who do you do everything for? Why do you work? Why do you rest? Why do you befriend someone? Why do you parent? Why do you love your family? You've got lots of reasons, I imagine, for why you do all those things. Primarily, the idea here is that everything I do is in service to God, like an act of worship, like an act of Old Testament sacrifice, where I give myself up. I give my life up, and my very life is an offering to God. Everything I do is in service to Him.
As I do that, I trust Him. I trust Him for the grace that I need. I trust Him for the strength that I need, and I trust Him for the outcomes. So much is outside of my control. What is in my control? Whatever that is, I commit it all to God. What is out of my control, I entrust to Him.
Listen to what the Puritan Richard Baxter said about this verse: "Let all your work be done for God. He is your end. Let your intention be to please Him. This is to turn the works of your calling into sacrifices and to sanctify the works of every day."
The Promise of God's Help
That's the call—to commit everything to God. As we do that, here is the promise according to this verse. What is the promise as we do that? He—that is, God—will help you. You see, the risk is, if I do everything for God, and if He is the end of all things, and if I entrust myself and my life and my loved ones—namely, everything—if I entrust it all to Him, what if I do that and He doesn't help? What if there is no grace, no strength, no help?
What is this verse telling us? There's a promise here, and that is that God will help you. God will help us.
I want you to think right now about something in your life, some area of your life, some responsibility, some decision that you have not yet committed to God. That means you're doing it of your own strength. That means that you probably don't even pray about it. It might mean that it's something you worry a lot about. My invitation is the psalmist's invitation here, and that is, today, would you commit it, whatever that is, to God? Would you trust Him?
