Success

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SUCCESS

Prov 16:3

3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.

NIV

At first sight this might seem to imply that if we commit our plans to God he will make sure they are successful. This of course might give the impression that he is there waiting as a genie in the bottle to make our plans successful. The key to the truth in this saying lies in the word commit. The original language implies to roll over, so then we would have to roll over our plans to the Lord, which is to transfer them from us to him. When we give God all our burdens and cares, when we spend that time with him transferring all our doings, our work, our life to him, then we hear from him and understand the way we should go, thus we will be successful in our journey, our life. We surely must understand this successful journey has nothing to do with the gathering of material wealth, but the gathering of spiritual worth. It might be that in his divine will we gain much material wealth as well, but its benefit might better service the kingdom then be spent of self-gratification. It is clear that before we begin, while we are doing, and even at the end of any endeavor we should look to the divine influence upon our hearts to have success. If we plan and do anything in the human will alone, without the divine influence of God, surely our life will have been a miserable failure. If we commit everything to God, the journey of our life will be a great success.