Trust!

Trust!

Proverbs 3:5-6 AMPC

[5] Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. [6] In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.

Life today is complex. The more years we spend on earth, the more things change. A lot of technological advances have changed the landscape of the world; man's inhumanity to man continues to find new expressions; we continue to find new ways and means to hurt each other. Men have also found schemes to make money and be comfortable, sometimes at the expense of other people's health and safety. It appears that the God-factor is not really considered important these days. We seem to relegate God to an afterthought; an idea we only stumble upon when we have tried other options and failed spectacularly. What the verses above make clear is that we cannot continue to ignore God and get away with it. No matter how bad things get, or how good you have it now, at some point in time, you will have to deal with God's view on life and what really matters. 

The writer of the words in the verses above was known as the wisest man who ever lived at the time, and you may argue, even till today. He had seen the power of wealth, as well as the dangers of wealth. He had seen the value of wisdom, as well as the limits of human intelligence and schemes. He had seen all extremes, and for such a man to tell us to lean on, trust in and be confident in the Lord, he was speaking from personal experience. It may be that until you have tried other options and failed, you may not know the value of total trust in God. Until you have been totally disappointed in man, you may not know what it means to completely depend on God alone. Man's wisdom looks good, particularly when it seems it is succeeding and making you wealthy, but note that the world is able to take away from you that which it gives you. The world cannot sustain that which it did not originate. 

The counsel here is critical: go for the Lord who is wisdom personified: the Omniscient God who holds and knows tomorrow. Who else can guide me into the future, other than the One who formed the future? Who knows the dangers and perils ahead, other than the One who wrote down all the days appointed for me, even before one of them came to pass? This is not something I do once a week, or for some parts of my life, but for ALL my ways. It is a daily walk, and a full commitment to surrender. It is a call to recognize and acknowledge Him in all areas of life. Nothing must be too big or too small to take to Him. Nothing must be too inconvenient to leave at His feet and trust Him to sort out. The promise is that He will direct and make my paths straight and plain. If I want the result laid out in the verses above, I must align with the conditions laid out. The choice, as always, is mine to make. God's time of favour is here.