Therefore, for Your name’s sake, lead me and guide me. Pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, for You are my strength. Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. (Psalm 31:3-5)
If you and I could see all and know all, we could do all; but we can’t because only God has that authority and power. If there were no pitfalls in life, no snares and nets secretly laid before us, we could navigate life on our own. But those things do exist, and so we need the Omniscient One to lead and guide us through the world’s minefield. In so doing, we are acknowledging that our confidence is in Him and the truth of His Word. Basically, we are entrusting our very life into His hands; then again, He is the One who gave us this life — why shouldn’t be willing to entrust it into His hand?
I can’t help of think of what the Messiah said, just before He breathed His last — “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit” (Luke 23:46) which prompts a question. Was He quoting David for the sake of those who witnessed these things or was He actually stating that He was trusting the Father to raise Him up at the appointed time? I think the answer is, “Yes” — on both accounts. Everything that had happened — the conspiring, the betrayal, the suffering and method of execution — had been prophesied in the Word and had unfolded just as it was written. The only thing yet to take place was the resurrection, and so with one statement, Messiah reminded those who heard of what David had said, and at the same time, professed complete confidence that the Father would be true to fulfill His Word.
There is no doubt that death and hell, once having Him in its grasp, desperately wanted to hold onto Him — that was not to be. It had already been determined that the Father would raise Him up on the Third Day. Still, Messiah was compelled to obey everything that had been written and, like us, had to believe that God would pull Him “out of the net” the dominion of darkness tried to keep Him in. Thus, with His dying breath, He professed with complete and total trust that the God of Truth would keep His Spirit and redeem Him from the grip of the grave.
Seeing we have testimony after testimony, and example after example bearing witness to God’s faithfulness to His Word, let us not doubt that He will do the same for us. We can’t see all and know all but, if we know Him, we can overcome all. Let us freely say, “Father, into Your hands I commit my life.”
Blessings and Shalom,
Bill
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