"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6
If you asked a big group of people what their favorite Bible verse was, odds are, many would quote these verses. They're so great! It's kind of like this incredible nugget of wisdom for life as we journey out into the world early on & then even as we continue to walk through different life phases.
But, it's been at many of the times in life that I've felt the PAIN of poor choices or lack of making a wise choice, that I've realized this great "quotable" verse that we often just skim over as we read, really has deep significance & truth in ALL that it says.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart..." the active BELIEVING in God with your entire being & existence, the reality that He is God & we are not...
"lean not on your own understanding..." that means not relying solely on our own "ability" to figure things out, or on our wealth & what we own, or on ALL the friends who we ask advice from of what we should do in a certain situation (of whom many may not even be truly following God's paths themselves...)
"in all your ways acknowledge Him..." turning over EVERY area of life to Him, not ignoring or restricting His influence over any part of our lives by thinking we want to "handle that part ourselves"
"and he will make your paths straight." that literally means He'll make them "plain" - wow, I love that! We don't have to wonder how God will show us what to do...His Word says He WILL make it clear to us.
So, those times I find myself in a "grief!" of a situation, I've learned to first go to God, to think through whether I've "acknowledged" Him over that area or whether I just started going my own way because it seemed like the best way to go. Of course, sometimes we face problems just because we unfortunately live in a fallen world where bad things happen, but many times, we face problems because we've chosen to go our own way & forgotten to seek out what God might say first.
If you, like me, want to save yourself from any more unnecessary grief today, "trust God, don't lean only on the way you see things, acknowledge that He is God & we are not"...and He'll do the rest.
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