Heaven Land Devotions - Into Thy Hands I Commit My Spirit

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Today in devotions when I came across the verse, "Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth." (Psalm 31:5). What really stood out to me was the word "commit." Most of us know what that word means. In a way it is a heavy weighty word. Because all of us in the past have mistakenly committed to something, or perhaps someone, only to find out it was a weighty mistake.

But there can be no mistake for a person who commits themselves into the hand of the Lord God of Truth. A person who commits their spirit to the Lord in life, lives in the midst of God's perfect will. I think also that the word "commit" is unfortunately not considered in light of the deeper understanding of it.

Most memorable, even among expressions of the Psalms, as the dying words of our Lord Himself (Luke 23:46), and a long line of Christian worthies. Polycarp, Bernard, Huss, Henry V., Jerome of Prague, Luther, Melancthon, are some of the many who have passed away comforted and upheld by the psalmist’s expression of trust in these words. There is a committing of one's own spirit in this earthly mortal life, then committing their spirit before going into heaven at the end of it. David said in verse 15, "My times are in thy hands."

Which would entail his life here on earth. But death was not in his thought, it was in life, amid its troubles and dangers, that he trusted his spirit. He deposits his most precious treasure in the safe custody of the One who will take care of it. The great Hand is stretched out, and the little soul is put into it. It closes, and ‘no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand.’ The act of the psalmist was an act of strong confidence in God in the midst of dangers and troubles; the act of the Savior was of the same nature, commending his spirit to God in the solemn hour of death.

When you commit yourself to something or someone, you become one with them in thought, manners and beliefs. You amalgamate into them. You potentially risk the path God has you on if you trade His hand for the hand of the mortal. Be careful of what others commit to your trust as well. Be careful of what you commit to, whatever who or what it is, because if it is not God's will, you will lose yourself in it. Pray about everything.

"You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment." ~Charles Spurgeon

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