Understanding or Trust?
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. (ESV)
I’m sure you’ve met really smart people along the way. Me too. They just leave us in the dust with their brilliance, right? Some are academically gifted. Others seem to have a level of emotional intelligence, of wisdom, that you and I could surely never attain.
But it doesn’t matter how smart or emotionally intelligent or wise we may be … we’re all confronted by circumstances in life that are so complex, with so many variables and imponderables … that no one’s every going to be able to figure it all out.
The problem is, when you’re immersed in those circumstances, when they’re causing you uncertainty, worry, fear … you want to figure them out, right? Of course you do, we all do!
But when it comes to relationships, politics, organisational machinations, emotions, stock markets, whatever it happens to be … who can understand all that and come up with the best way through?
Look, I don’t purport to know the mind of God, but I strongly suspect that He’s deliberately set things up that way for a very specific purpose:
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. (ESV)
Nowhere in the Bible, not a single time, does God call us to try and figure it all out for ourselves; to understand everything that’s going on for ourselves. Yet over and over again He calls us to trust Him.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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