Seek God’s Understanding
Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6
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These verses from Proverbs can be a continual, lifelong, daily prayer for us to pray for all those we love, because our natural tendency is to lean on our own understanding and do things our way instead of depending on God’s wisdom and ways. The longer I live, the more I realize that all of our responsibilities, all that God has called us to do, are beyond our own human ability. There is nothing I can do apart from God. In everything—whether it is parenting; relationships with my husband, children, grandchildren, and friends; ministry work; writing; speaking; or teaching—I need to depend on God, seek his higher understanding, his wisdom and his will, and then trust in his leading with all my heart. As I do these things, I become the recipient of God’s wonderful promise in Proverbs 3:6—he will direct my path—a promise that is backed by all the honor of his name. Even when it seems that there is no way out, when we’ve hit our own limitations or a dead end, God will guide us and make a way for us.
Prayers:
LORD, help me to trust in you with all my heart today. Guard me from depending on my own limited understanding. Instead, help me to rely totally on you. I desire to seek your will in all I do today. Thank you for the promise that you will direct my paths so that I can walk hand in hand with you, depend on your higher understanding, and seek your will in all I do.
Quotes:
Because our understanding is earthbound . . . human to the core . . . limited . . . finite . . . we operate in a dimension totally unlike our Lord . . . who knows no such limitations. We see now. He sees forever.
Charles R. Swindoll (b. 1934)
The One Year Bible readings for today are: Genesis 23:1–24:51; Matthew 8:1-17; Psalm 9:13-20 and Proverbs 3:1-6.
