“Trust
in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all
your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your path.” Proverbs 3:5-6
Wise people trust God. The
wisest people trust Him completely.
The word for trust means to
“lean into”. When you trust God you “lean into Him” with all your weight.
Heed the wise instruction
given in these verses, “You don’t have to fully understand God in order to
fully trust Him.”
Often, one of the biggest
obstacles to trusting God is the notion that we have to understand Him in order
to trust Him.
As Solomon reminds us in this
Proverb, not only is that untrue it is absurd!
I put my trust in a lot of
things I don’t understand. I have rested all my weight in a jetliner and flown
35,000 feet across the Atlantic Ocean with little understanding of that
aircraft.
I have a very limited
understanding of how my Toyota Camry works but I trust it to carry me wherever
I need to go.
I lean heavily on this laptop
for my writing and sermon preparation and research and emails every day of
every week. I don’t really understand how it works.
Here’s some wisdom to help
you trust Him.
Wise people trust God by leaning
completely into His trustworthiness and leaning away from their understanding
of Him.
Is your need to understanding
Him making it difficult to trust Him?
Wise up!
Lean away from your need to
understand Him and lean fully into what you DO understand about Him – HE IS
TRUSTWORTHY!
By the way, an amazing thing
happens as you lean fully into His trustworthiness – you gain a better
understanding of Him as well!
How are you leaning today?
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