“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” (Proverbs 3: 5-6).
Today’s verses from Proverbs were one of the first passages from Scripture I memorized. My step-mom wrote them in the front of the Bible she gave me after my baptism and profession of faith. Every night, I read my Bible before I went to bed and did my best to live how the Word commanded me to live. I was eleven years old and loved the Lord, but it was difficult for me to learn to trust Him as a person. I had no idea how to depend on someone I could not see. After some difficult times in my life, I renewed my relationship with Jesus, and only then did I learn how to relate to Him on an intimate level. By trusting in myself and my own understanding, I had created a real mess of my life. Godly men, it is hard to learn how to lean on God after years of doing our own thing, but it is essential to our spiritual growth to learn to trust Him. Psalms 37: 4 and 5 says: “Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.” If we seek the Lord’s will for our lives, He will not leave us to our own devices. He is faithful to guide and direct our paths. He cannot be the Lord of our lives, if we refuse to trust and lean on Him. What in our lives keeps us from trusting Him like we should? What do we need to surrender to Him that we have been holding on to ourselves? Ask the Lord to teach you to trust Him more, today.
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