Dan’s Brains

I am back to the title iTRUST, because to trust or not is always my choice. It is good to hear all the “WE” stories of a great God, but I still need to be the one that trusts. No one can trust God for me.

As a child my father had verses hanging all over his truck. Sometimes they covered almost everything except his view forward. One verse he seemed to always have hanging was Proverbs 3:5-6:

Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.

I read this and wonder how possible that is? All my heart is a lot! It is easy to trust God with my salvation and to get me to heaven, and even when everything is going great, but what about the other stuff. Relationships, money, struggles, a friend gets hurt or dies my dream comes crashing in around me . . . my heart is huge. Can I or will I trust the LORD with all my heart?

My heart is my desire. In who’s hands do I place my desires? Usually my own. But what if all of that was in the LORD or master of my life’s hands?

Then it hits my understanding. This takes trust from my heart to my head. I like to figure everything out. I like to think, solve problems, know what’s up with me and others. I often lean very much on what I know. But doesn’t that rob God of leading us? What if I still thought a lot, but the lean of my life, choices, speech, plans were upon the LORD. If I really trusted him would he forget to show up or lead?

“All my ways” is a whole bunch of ways. When I get up, what I eat, who I talk to or pass by, the way I talk, the places I go, the stories I tell, what I put into my mind . . . everything I do make up “All my ways.” SO what if I trusted the LORD enough to say, lead me. Wake me, Take me, Turn me, Stop me and Start me. I acknowledge you as important in every area. Wow would that change life.

Then the closer . . . He will make your paths straight. DO I WANT THAT MUCH CONNECTION TO GOD? That He makes my paths instead of me, He becomes LORD?

So back to trust . . . do I?

Tags: Heart, Trust

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