Verse 5 says in the King James Version of the Bible, “Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass." Again the flashpoint of this psalm is thy or your way, this psalm is talking about how to handle your ways. Commitment to the Lord here is tantamount. But it is still very personal. You ways are your ways for you. Besides general principles of the good, each individual will have their way. I’m not going to want to sell a slew of mansions if I’m not in the real estate business. Here it is talking about personal projects, that you are committing to the Lord in hopes of it actual coming thru or coming to pass into a fruition of the desires of my heart. Here it is saying the lord will bring it thru or bring it about. For contemplation, we want to focus in prayer more towards what the result is going to be, where we want to the Lord to bring us. Here we want to be able to discuss where we actually want to go. We are supposed to be humble but here if you really want something even if is seems a bit big and out of reach, this is stated vision is something that can be discussed very vividly in prayer. If you’re drawing back on the request then you might also be drawing back on the commitment. Tell the Lord what you want to commit to, even if it seems unlikely to pass into reality from your current vantage point. You may be unsure of any number of things, but the fullness of your personal vision needs to be brought forth and discussed in the fullest possible light of the truth of what your really want. Commitment would be with specifics on what we want the Lord to bring to pass. So if I am in the business of selling big houses and estates, I am committing the venture to the Lord which is very specific to that. A commitment to the Lord around this specific enterprise is discussed with the Lord and you are presenting a picture of what is going to hopefully happen. This prayer is very much a here and now type prayer. Of course this also could be intercessory, I want peace for Africa, so I pray for peace in Africa.
Verse 6 says, “He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn and the justice of your cause like the noonday sun." Basically here, this is saying he can make the sun shine in the sky, he can bring your project up and running as well. But there needs to be the righteousness or justice aspect to your project. It has got to be the right thing. This is in an unrighteous or unjust endeavor therefore, or something you are wanting to hide, therefore you wouldn’t want it to shine like the noonday sun, but would rather keep it under wraps.
Verses 16 thru 20 are particularly interesting. “ Better the little that the righteous have, than the wealth of the many wicked, for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous. The days of the blameless are known to the Lord, and their inheritance will endure forever, in times of disaster they will not wither, in days of famine they will enjoy plenty.
You usually think of a day as to what is in the newspaper today, what is the weather like today and so on. But here, it says, the days of the blameless are known to the Lord. The Lord has the days of these individuals as in some ways the day he is beholding; the day is the day of this given blameless person or that given blameless person. So an understanding needs to be that the Lord is looking in on your day, which is quite amazing. In the meantime, you might be looking out at everything else going on in the world. A better grasp of these verses, is that what the righteous should be looking for is how God is looking in on your day. The wicked might have much more wealth, but the Lord looking in for you on your day is way above any wealth of the wicked, not matter to what extent it accumulates, it can’t compare to have the Lord watching your day for you personally.
Verse 23 says, “ If the Lord delights in a man’s way, he makes his steps firm." Here, again, if you are seeing the Lord’s presence in even steps that you make or everyday personal moves, take it as a sign that the Lord is delighting in you and your on the right track."
Verse 27, in the King James Version says, “Depart from evil, do good and dwell forever more." Here it is not saying outright that someone is doing evil, but they might be in the presence of evil and getting close. This verse is saying it might for example be necessary to ditch a job, depending, ditch certain people, activities, what you are viewing, etc. Depart from evil, and also do good. Evil will eventually get in the way, and since this psalm is talking about the Lord doing things for you personally, it will get in the way of what the Lord wants to do for you personally and take you away from the desires of your heart.
Verse 31 says in the King James version, “The law of God is in his heart, none of his steps will slide." I can relate to this verse personally, as I remember hiking early this summer in Glacier National Park with sneakers to Iceberg Lake, which was higher up and had snow on the approach, snow which just wasn’t present at lower elevations. My feet were sliding on this snow as I didn’t have the proper footwear and I lost my balance a couple times on rolling hills on the near the high mountain lake thousands of feet up. Here this verse is saying God will not lead you into situations where you are going to be sliding in your steps. Overall, he will set you on a doable, achievable course, one that you are capable of dealing with without sliding all over the place. As they say, He is not going to give you something you can’t handle with His help.
Verse 37 says, “Consider the blameless, observe the upright, there is a future for the man of peace." Going back to verse 11, it says, “But the meek will inherit the earth, and enjoy great peace." Here the indication is that God is holding the cards for the future, the irony is, the evil are also plotting for their future excluding God, who controls the future. God is giving as part of his gift, great peace, and peace that also relates to enjoyment. Here the two are correlated, peace and enjoyment. Something to think about, meditate on and consider is how what you enjoy relates to peace and how peace and enjoyment are intertwined and combining these elements as well in your approach to prayer.
This psalm presents as given the presence of evil, but God can bless abundantly a person even in times of evil and even looks in on the individual days of the righteous, like it is a separate world in His eyes. You can't just look at what's around you and say that this is what the Lord's view is as pertaining to you as an individual. There is a natural tendency to do this, things are happening to other people and this is something that has significance towards me.
A cue to this is from Deuteronomy Chapter 5, " verse 9 thru 10 says:" For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishments for their father's wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation but bestowing mercy, down to the thousandth generation, on the children of those who love me and keep my commandments.".
From this verse in the Bible, it could well be for an ancient grandparent that the Lord is bestowing favor upon you for now. With this, how could someone possibly know that this is the case except that it be given to the them in the realm of the Spirit. This is why the realm of the Spirit comes first when trying to understand what relates to you, and it is often much less what you actually see. This is why someone who lived in a separate era even, in the Lord's eyes can have relevance to your life in terms of his blessings and favor. Even if it is a time of great evil, in the world, the Lord's blessings supersede this for a given individual and this blessing indeed might be an extension of what the Lord is doing for an ancestor as an extended blessing. Whether this is the case or not, it does show that the hand of the Lord as far as individual blessings does supersede climates of the times.
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