In my daily meditations earlier today, I came across Proverbs 3:5-6. It reads, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend upon your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will direct your paths."
What a wondrous thought...what a wondrous message of peace to us. We continually try to go it alone and, as a result, we continually fail, make mistakes, say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing. What a relief to know that we aren't failures if we don't "depend on our own understanding". It's not only okay but commanded of us to just let go and trust the Lord.
If we "seek His will in all we do" we have the guarantee that "He will direct our paths". This all sounds so simple to do; however, being the fallible and proud humans we are, it's anything but easy. We have that little annoying voice in us that we have to be right, we have to be independent, we have to be superior. We're just funny that way.
As I grow older, the need to be right, to be independent, the need to be superior fades. The idea of being able to be totally dependent upon our loving God is welcomed indeed.
We learn to trust from those we love; and who loves us more than God? So, let's relax, let's let go, and let's follow the simple yet profound wisdom of the proverb.
God's blessings to you.
love, love, love this. :)
ReplyDelete