100 Days with Jesus: Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart

Day 24


Proverbs 3:5 is one of my favorite verses. It says to me ‘Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.’ But my thinking, my understanding makes sense to me. I don’t always understand God’s thinking. I can’t begin to comprehend the greatness of God’s mind and how my very limited life span and my tiny abilities play into His huge master plan for mankind. I can’t see sometimes how my disappointments or sufferings make any difference to anyone other than me. And I don’t always see how my successes may profit anyone other than me and my family. But it’s all so much bigger than that.

That’s why when I go to the Lord in prayer, sometimes I forget that I am not going to God in prayer to bring Him into my plans. I must go to Him in prayer and see where do I need to fit in today in His plan. What do I need to learn from Him today so that this day will be spent obeying Him and growing spiritually with Him? With so many concerns on my mind, I find that hard to do some days. I naturally want to start putting it all out there for Him to sort out for me. Prayer is designed to change me, one day at a time as I grow in obedience to God. I’m glad I don’t have to lean on my own understandings because that’s a weak, unstable place to rest.