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“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.”
Life is complex.
Life is uncertain.
As we walk throughout life at some point we wrestle with a huge challenge - understanding God’s plan. As believers, we want to understand the ways of the LORD. We want to know what He is doing and why He is doing it.
This desire to know everything leads to spiritual struggle for a lot of us. We get confused. We grow insecure. We try our best to make sense of every little thing that happens, only to realize our human understanding falls short.
Can we truly grasp the intricacies of God’s plan and design?
As intricate as our mind is, it is imperfect when it comes to understanding the complexities of the designs of God. We see this truth in many areas of life. Sometimes, we go through situations that confuse us. We may question the purpose of our trials and situations. We don’t understand their meaning in the broader scheme of our lives.
Eventually, man of us look back and recognize how those trials served a greater purpose in our life. But in the current moment when those trials are going on, we hold a limited understanding of why it is occurring.
It’s through this understanding that our minds are limited. We have an inability to understand the whole picture. We only see a tiny brush stroke in the grand masterpiece that God is painting. There is a greater plan at work always/
It is through this that we must prioritize trust over understanding. The most common verse for this that many of us know is Proverbs 3:5 - “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.” We see that and we think, “I trust God, but I have a better grasp on what’s going on and I have this greater plan for my life!”
Building our life on Chrsit is all about exhibiting trust over understanding.
It’s saying, “God, I have no idea what you’re doing. But I trust that it will be for Your Glory at the end of the day.”
We must consider trust as a pathway for spiritual growth. Trusting God when we don’t fully understand His ways grows our reliance on Him. And that’s because trust involves surrendering control. It requires courage and humility to admit that you don’t have it all figured out. By doing so, we recognize our limitations. We accept God’s sovereignty, which in turn strengthens our dependence on Him.
Trust Him also invites peace and contentment into our lives. Our life isn’t frittered away by the details that we can’t control. Our eyes stay directed on Him, not on the non-essential. It’s through this that we stay anchored and secured in the knowledge of God’s unchanging love.
He is sovereign. I am not.
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I pray that your day is full of reminders of God’s love and faithfulness. May you faithfully build your life on Christ.
“But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in my weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” - 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
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