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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Created To Play, continued
Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong; for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. (Psalms 37:1,2—NIV)
We are forbidden to fret. We simply must pray for strength until we can delight ourselves in the Lord, and then obey the Lord if He gives us something to do concerning the evil around us.
If we choose to delight ourselves in the Lord continually He has promised to give us the desires of our heart, that is, to make it possible for us to play. His promise is sure. It can never be broken. If we are wise we will permit the Lord to decide what the true desires of our heart are, because sooner or later we are going to receive what we continue to desire.
Committing and trusting.
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: (Psalms 37:5—NIV)
Part of delighting ourselves in the Lord is to commit all our ways to Him and trust Him that He finally will bring us into the place of play.
To commit our way to the Lord is to bring every decision of the day and night, no matter how small or great, to the Lord for His will to be done. There must be absolutely nothing we hold back. Whatever we decide to hold back from the Lord's decision, choosing instead to follow our own desires, has the potential to completely ruin the Lord's plan for us and to prevent us (perhaps eternally) from playing with the children of God.
The original sin was self-will. It was through Satan's self-will that every misery entered the universe. God has imposed work on us, the doing of that which is unpleasant, that we might be completely delivered from self-will. If we do not give everything, every circumstance, every relationship to the Lord, we are an integral part of the original rebellion. We are a destroyer of that which is good.
We cannot commit our way to the Lord until we trust Him. To trust God means we are confident He knows everything there is to know about us, we are confident He is seeking to give us the desires of our heart, and we are confident He has the power to give us the desires of our heart, to bring us to play. We trust He will not forsake us in the middle of the program. We trust in His utter faithfulness.
Until we commit all our ways to the Lord, trusting Him implicitly to bring us to joy, it is impossible for us to gain the right to play.
Making ourselves a prey.
He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. (Psalms 37:6—NIV)
Whenever we decide to do the Lord's will, to keep the commandments of Christ and His Apostles as He helps us, to stay in the prison where we have been put, to not fret ourselves but to delight in the Lord always, to keep our mind on the things above, we are preparing ourselves to play, to be brought to the place where our desires are the same as the Lord's.
To be continued.