I have been dwelling on Proverbs 3:5-6 for a long time. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.” This has been a wonderful Bible verse for me my whole life.
There have been so many circumstances this year, 2020, and even before this year. I really have been going through a lot. Yet I am reminded every morning, as I make an effort to seek God, that His mercies are new every morning. I find hope each day when I seek Him in the Holy Bible, in prayer and praise and worship.
God has been good to me, and His ways are always higher than mine. I have gone through a long cycle of worrying and overcoming worry. God has taught me in His word to rely on Him. He has lead me to many different verses where this is suggested, then commanded, then even threatened upon me.
Israel was delivered from slavery in Egypt through God’s wonderful powerful hand and the obedience of Moses. The twelve tribes, all the people, were there and saw each of the steps of that process with their own eyes; the plagues, the pestilence, the water turning to blood, the hailstorms. All these things were done right before their eyes. Then God parted the Red Sea and Israel walked through on dry land. Yet as they sojourned in the wilderness, they forgot all those miraculous things.
God reminded them, He fed them in the wilderness, He provided manna, then quail, water from the rock. So many things were provided for God’s people in the wilderness and still they disobeyed and broke the laws and worshipped false gods and idols.
Finally God decided to let them wonder in the wilderness until that whole generation had died off before letting any of them enter the land of blessing, Canaan.
I have been there. I have come through struggles and sickness and been changed and healed and provided for by God’s mighty hand. Yet deep in my nature I always come back to “What have you done for me lately God?”
So God has taught me first hand in His Word to rely upon Him. Proverbs 3:5-6 is one of the very first verses that I learned to dwell upon. I have spent much time dwelling on this verse, and still read it often, and think about it in terms of what I am going through today.
I invite you to read Proverbs 3:5-6 and pray and ask God what it means to you, right now, in your circumstances and whatever you are going through today. Then listen for the answer.
God is good, all the time!