Scripture Devotion
Commit the work first — the settled mind follows.
“Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.”
Reflection
The order is worth noticing: commit the works, and then the thoughts get established. We usually try it backwards — settle the mind first, resolve all the anxiety, and then act. This proverb reverses the sequence. The committing of the work comes first; the settledness of mind follows from it, not before it. To commit is to hand over — to entrust the doing to someone beyond yourself, rather than white-knuckling sole responsibility for how it turns out. And the promise attached is peace of mind: thoughts established, made firm. The scattered, anxious thinking gets steadied not by more thinking but by the act of entrusting the work.