Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5 NASB
This verse contains two commands—trust in the Lord and don’t rely on your own understanding.
Do you trust in God? You can rely on God because He is truly trustworthy—He has the strength to sustain, help, and protect you and an incomprehensible love for you that cannot be broken or grow stale. You are not bringing your prayers before someone who is powerful but fickle, or one who is loving and good, but weak. The God you pray to is all-powerful, but also good and loving. Therefore, you can be confident that your life is placed firmly in His hands and His control and that He considers it precious.
How often do you lean on your own understanding and strength instead of God’s? You are remarkably less capable of controlling your life than God is. Instead of trusting yourself, someone who doesn’t know the future and certainly can’t control it, lean on the all-powerful God who knows each step you will take. Relinquish all your anxious thoughts over to His control. Trusting God with your future is far more productive than worrying about it. So trust and lean on Him with everything in your heart. He will sustain you.
Lord, forgive me for not trusting You as I should. Forgive me for leaning on my own understanding instead of relying on Your infinite wisdom and strength. Thank You that these commands You give me are for my greatest benefit.
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Today’s reading was adapted from Daily Wisdom for Women: 2013 Devotional Collection with permission from Barbour Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reading was written by Emily Marsh.
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