Proverbs 3:5. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
This verse is one of the most loved verses in all the Bible, and for good reason. Proverbs 3:5 is basically a summary of the entire Bible, and of our entire relationship with God. Why do I say that? Because there is nothing more important than trusting the Lord with all your heart. More than anything else, God wants us to trust him, and the whole Bible is meant to teach us how to do just that.
The word trust comes from a Hebrew word that means to lie face down on the ground. Combine this with lean not and we begin to get a picture of our posture before God. We are not meant to prop ourselves up in any way before God (lean not), but rather we are meant to collapse before him in complete dependence.
You know it’s possible to believe in God without trusting God. It’s possible even to obey God without trusting God. How often is your own faith and obedience confirmed and empowered by your own efforts?
When we confuse God’s principles with his person, it becomes easy to believe that we are trusting God when in reality we are trusting in our own ability to live by “biblical principles.” Ironically many a Christian has done this very thing with Proverbs 3:5. Trust in the Lord with all your heart becomes a standard to live up to, equated with whatever form of law keeping or ego charged morality that you embrace to justify yourself. Instead trust in the Lord with all your heart must be a desperate disintegration of the self, and a complete reliance on your union with Christ.
You: What do you trust in daily to justify your existence? What are you leaning on?
You in Christ: Meditate on this -In Christ you have everything you need from God, but this can only be realized when you trust him (collapse before him in dependence).
Christ in you: What might collapse before God look like in your practical experience today?
Pray: Father, I want to trust you. I confess that I often turn to my faith in rules, laws, and principles instead of him. Help me to live complete dependence on Jesus today. Amen.
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