Commit Your Work

Commit to the LORD whatever you do, the proverb says, and he will establish your plans. The verb is plain and physical, like rolling a heavy load off your own back and onto stronger shoulders. It does not promise that your plans will look the way you drew them. It promises that what you entrust to God will be made to stand, set on a foundation you could never pour yourself.

Here is the tension. To commit your work is to loosen your grip on it, and we hold our work tightly because it feels like our worth. We want the credit and we fear the failure, and both keep our knuckles white. Committing the work means you might do it faithfully and still not control the outcome. You plant, you tend, and you hand the increase to God.

This changes how you work beside others. When the outcome is in God's hands, you stop hoarding the good assignments and stop dreading the hard ones. You can help a coworker without calculating what it costs your standing. The carpenter who has committed his work can teach the apprentice freely, because he is not building a monument to himself. He is building a thing that is good, and trusting God with the rest.

Take the project that is keeping you up at night and pray it into God's hands this morning, by name. Do your part with care, then leave the establishing to him. You are responsible for the faithfulness, not the harvest. Roll the load off your back, covenant keeper, and feel how much lighter your hands become for the work in front of you.