Heaven Land Devotions - Into Thy Hands I Commit My Spirit

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Today in devotions when I came across the verse, "Into thine hand
I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth."
(Psalm 31:5). What really stood out to me was the word "commit."
Most of us know what that word means. In a way it is a heavy
weighty word. Because all of us in the past have mistakenly
committed to something, or perhaps someone, only to find out it
was a weighty mistake.  


But there can be no mistake for a person who commits themselves
into the hand of the Lord God of Truth. A person who commits
their spirit to the Lord in life, lives in the midst of God's
perfect will. I think also that the word "commit" is
unfortunately not considered in light of the deeper understanding
of it.  


Most memorable, even among expressions of the Psalms, as the
dying words of our Lord Himself (Luke 23:46), and a long line of
Christian worthies. Polycarp, Bernard, Huss, Henry V., Jerome of
Prague, Luther, Melancthon, are some of the many who have passed
away comforted and upheld by the psalmist’s expression of trust
in these words. There is a committing of one's own spirit in this
earthly mortal life, then committing their spirit before going
into heaven at the end of it. David said in verse 15, "My times
are in thy hands." 


Which would entail his life here on earth. But death was not in
his thought, it was in life, amid its troubles and dangers, that
he trusted his spirit. He deposits his most precious treasure in
the safe custody of the One who will take care of it. The great
Hand is stretched out, and the little soul is put into it. It
closes, and ‘no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s
hand.’ The act of the psalmist was an act of strong confidence in
God in the midst of dangers and troubles; the act of the Savior
was of the same nature, commending his spirit to God in the
solemn hour of death.  


When you commit yourself to something or someone, you become one
with them in thought, manners and beliefs. You amalgamate into
them. You potentially risk the path God has you on if you trade
His hand for the hand of the mortal. Be careful of what others
commit to your trust as well. Be careful of what you commit to,
whatever who or what it is, because if it is not God's will, you
will lose yourself in it. Pray about everything.  


"You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word
that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had
undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are
pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like
a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the
dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like
Jesus is going back on His commitment." ~Charles Spurgeon