"Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed." ~Proverbs 16:3, NLT
I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one who fears failure more than almost anything else. As cowardly as it sounds, all too often I find myself backing out of an event or course of action if there's a possibility of failure. (Hmm, I think I need to fail more often.)
But say you're starting a business, where failure equates to no dinner on the table. If your plans fall through, the losses could be crushing. Not to mention you'd miss dinner for a short while.
All right, all right, maybe not. But for ME at least - the one with a fear of failure - this verse is a comfort. It tells me that if I've got my eyes set on the Lord and I'm following through His plan that I will succeed. And seeing as this is a Proverb (of Solomon, I believe,) it was written as a piece of wisdom for a young child stepping into adulthood. And since the "fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom" (Proverbs 9:10) this particular piece of advice comes straight from a desire to please God.
Committing something to the Lord means two things - one, you stop trying to control it, and two, you follow God's plan for the procedure instead of yours. Letting go of control is especially difficult, mostly because it means we have to trust God completely with the plan, whatever it is. This isn't such a big deal because God is a good God and takes care of us when we trust Him, but the trusting is the hard part when you're sitting at the table and the plates are empty.
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