Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart

*I will not doubt Him for He promises to always be in Control and will remember that He loves me.

Proverbs 3: 5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,  and he will make your paths straight.[a] 

Trust in the Lord; wholly and securely rely upon God’s promises and providence for help and relief in all affairs and dangers.  Trust is the child like confidence without wavering, in our Father’s well-proved wisdom, faithfulness, and love.

Lean not unto your own understanding; think not to accomplish things by my own strength  and my own wit , for God forbids all other confidences in bodily strength, wealth, friends, etc.   To confide in God's plan/ will is to rise out of all our anxieties and our own “best” …. Falsely thinking of ourselves as the arbiters person who has the sole or absolute power of judging …..  of our own lives.   Since we are not all-knowing as God is… we can NOT  "lean on our own understanding."  

In pride, we feel that we need something earthly to "lean to"- i.e ourselves, our own foolish notions and our own human power.   These become our idol as we make our  “understanding” our own god.  Self dependence is rebellion to God. God lovingly demands that we consult Him.  We must resolve to take all of your problems before Him.

 We can put the whole weight of our worries upon God because he is bigger than the problems that we face.

 Take one step on a time, under Divine direction; live a simple dependence on God.  After all, self wisdom is self-delusion. Don’t count on your own brain.

I have a hard time understanding everything. I can’t see all that’s going on.        

For we walk by faith, not by sight (2 Cor 5:7 )

Facts to remember: God has made his intelligent creatures dependent upon Himself.  

God requires them to be conscious of that dependence, yet God has promised to communicate what they need.   

God commands them to believe His promise, and look for its fulfillment.

“In all your ways”…  means I can trouble God about everything, great or small, that troubles me.   Only God possesses :
(1) the ability to completely comprehend all possible options and contingencies (Remember, only He is omniscience-   God is all-knowing;  He encompasses all knowledge of the universe past, present, and future. In the beginning, God created the world and everything in it, including knowledge.)
(2) the righteousness and wisdom to choose the right course
 (3) the power to make reality conform to the right course (omnipotence means He has the ability and power to anything (omni=all; potent=powerful) and He does this effortlessly.

 A good example of God’s omnipotence is  seen in His name el shaddai, which means “self-sufficient” or “almighty.” God’s power is unlimited.  

It is foolish to trust such pitifully limited understanding when one can trust the unlimited understanding of God.  (Does the created human know more than the CREATOR? Which one of us created the universe?)

Proverbs 14:12 ¹²There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.

Psalm 37: 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in His way.

Wherever God puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him.

This is both a comfort and a challenge. There is security in knowing that the Lord will lead us each day, but we must not become so attached to our plans that we resist God’s redirection or His timing.

“We have no right to judge where we should be put, or to have preconceived notions as to what God is fitting us for,” said Oswald Chambers. “God engineers everything. Wherever He puts us, our one great aim is to pour out a whole-hearted devotion to Him in that particular work.”

As we travel along life's road, remember that our limited foresight we select the route that seems best—only to find that the temporary advance has led us into a course filled with delay and heartache. But how reassuring that we can look to One who is above everything, who knows the end from the beginning! This is why the writer of Proverbs could say, "In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths" (Proverbs 3:6). When the Lord indicates a "stop" or a "change of lanes" or a "wait," we should gladly obey. 

Remember, God does not ask you to go where He does not lead.   Yes, look for direction from above.

 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,  Neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are my ways higher than your ways, And my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55: 8-9

The proof of our love for God is our obedience to the commands of God. When God conceals His purposes, He consoles with His promises. Obediently trust God in your circumstances--even when you can't understand what He's doing

 "Acknowledge" ( Proverbs 3:6) means to  have minute by minute fellowship with God, not just occasional. It includes obeying God's plan as He has revealed it to you, despite what your emotions say.

 I don’t always understand God’s ways, but I trust Him, for He is in charge of all.  Yesterday my youngest child had had a Dr appointment. The orthopedist said the erosion of his spine is unchanged...not better/ not worse. He said at this point, he wants him to avoid contact sports, take a calcium supplement each day...and see him back in 9 months..  My heart says why wouldn't God heal a child who loves Him.   But, my heart is a liar.  ...and God is good, even when He chooses not to show me what He is doing. Please, pray for the bone to grow back.. 

THE MESSAGE_     Hebrews 6: ^13-18 When God made his promise to Abraham, he backed it to the hilt, putting his own reputation on the line. He said, “I promise that I’ll bless you with everything I have—bless and bless and bless!” Abraham stuck it out and got everything that had been promised to him. When people make promises, they guarantee them by appeal to some authority above them so that if there is any question that they’ll make good on the promise, the authority will back them up. When God wanted to guarantee his promises, he gave his word, a rock-solid guarantee—God can’t break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable.

^18-20 We who have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go. It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us, in the order of Melchizedek.