Not too long
before I started dating Ryan, a friend of mine invited me to join her at an art
festival on a Sunday afternoon. It ended up being memorable for us, but not in
a great way. I overheated on the sweltering day, and it was so scary. I
couldn’t breathe, and in retrospect, it probably would have been in our best
interest to find a medical tent, but instead, we headed for her car to start
home. It took a couple of hours for me to feel better, and we were both
terrified.
But before all of that
happened, we had the following funny moment: she was driving though downtown
Indianapolis, and the light turned yellow in that awkward moment where she
couldn’t decide whether to press on or stop. Her face developed that
squirrel-in-the-road terror, and I finally yelled “COMMIT!!!” She pressed the
pedal to the floor and got us though before the light turned red.
After that day, we laughed for a
long time about COMMIT! And because of that, I think the word came to mean
(to me) “a quick, last-minute decision.” But in Psalm 37:5, that’s not at all
what the word means, and I love the explanation of what it actually
means.
The verse itself says Commit
your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
And the commentary I read says that
word means to roll your burden onto the Lord. It’s too heavy to carry. Roll
it over to Him and let Him take care of it. Not a quick, last-minute decision,
but a conscious transfer of control and ownership form me to Him.
In this week of the unexpected
that we’ve had…this week of trying to navigate my dad’s ongoing illness…I love
the idea of just rolling that toward the Lord and trusting Him to navigate it for
me – for us.
It seems simple in theory, but
oh how we (just me?) hang onto things and try to navigate it all alone. What a
beautiful reminder that I don’t have to do that. He’s ready (and eager) to act
on my behalf, if I will just pry my fingers off!
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