Lean Not…

Ever have a Scripture passage you needed to hear or read just kind of presented to you out of the blue? Cool how God works sometimes, isn’t it?

In case you hadn’t noticed, I have a random selection of Scriptures that are displayed by a plug-in in the upper right corner of my site. Every time you visit, you’ll get a new Scripture there. Anyway, it’s a cool feature, that turned out to be especially helpful to me today… I needed to be reminded of the verse that came up.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
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.

You see, I’ve been in a bit of a spiritual rut recently, and I haven’t really been able to put my finger on the reason why. It’s frustrating… I’d like to think that if I knew exactly what was going on, I could fix it. Given that, I’m sure you can see why these particular verses were meaningful to me.

Lean not on my own understanding. Trust in the LORD with all my heart. Acknowledge him (in all my ways), and HE will make my paths straight.

The message of Proverbs 3:5-6 is an encouraging one for sure. When we struggle with our faith… when we’re confused by life’s circumstances… when our prayers seem to go unanswered… when the world crashes down around us… we don’t have to worry about the why. We don’t have to understand it all to fix it.

We just trust in the Lord with everything we’ve got and follow Him intently. And He’ll take care of the mess we’re dealing with and put us back on the path He intends us to follow.

Cool stuff.