In The Waiting – part 1 – Trust
I began to really look at this verse in
September during my preparation for a lesson I was teaching the students at
church (and this verse was actually the memory verse for the month). Proverbs
3:5 says: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own
understanding.” The NIV uses the words “and lean not”. There is a lot in this
verse that can be learned and that is why I am using it as the main verse of
this short series of posts.
In life, we will all face trials and
struggles, and we will not understand them no matter how hard we try. In fact,
Jesus tells us this in John 16:33 when He states that “you will have trouble.”
So when these struggles, trials and things we do not understand come, we try
and understand why this is all happening to us. We start to question God and
wonder what He is up to. But, when we do that, we actually start to drive
ourselves crazy. That is what happens when we try to “depend on our own
understanding” of the situation. We go crazy.
I know. I have been there. Over the
summer I tried to understand a situation that I was going through. But in
trying to figure it out myself, it began to eat away at me and cause
unnecessary anxiety because I was only seeing one little piece of the big
picture and trying to figure out what it meant. I’m sure you have been there,
too. This is not what God wants for us. But then what does God want for us?
Trust.
He wants us to trust Him.
The first half of the verse tells us to
“trust the Lord with all our heart.” Then we see in verse 6 that God will guide
us through if we allow him to do so. God knows what is at the end of the
situation that we are going through, and He knows that we will be stronger people
when we get there.
We just have to get there.
Join me for the next two weeks as we
look briefly at Joseph and Moses’ stories and see how they had to wait on God.