Pastor Jim Dewar • First Baptist Church Bancroft Trusting God
Do you have any Scripture memorized? The Bible verses in today’s article, Proverbs 3:5-6, could quite possibly be ones you have put to memory. If not, I hope you will work on memorizing them. They are familiar verses and packed with great truth to apply to daily living. Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Did you notice the big themes in these verses of Scripture? They would include; Trusting God in verse five and Acknowledging God in verse six. There is more to this as we think about these verses. In verse five, we read ‘Trust in the Lord with all thine heart’. That means wholehearted trust in God. It includes not trusting in our own understanding. The Bible teaches us in Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” It is better to trust the Lord with all of our heart than to trust in our own understanding. Verse six says to ‘acknowledge God and He will direct our paths’. Do you ever acknowledge God? How do we do that? One way is to pray. I heard someone say that a prayer meeting is nothing more than a declaration of dependence meeting. When we pray, we are in essence acknowledging God, bringing our petitions, our cares, our requests to Him and thus declaring our dependence on Him. In addition to prayer, another way of acknowledging God is by searching His Word. We read this in John 5:39 “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” In these wonderful verses in Proverbs we learn about wholehearted trust in God and not leaning on our own understanding. We learn that in acknowledging God in all of our ways, God will direct our paths.
Have you ever trusted in God’s provision for salvation? He provided his own Son Jesus Christ to be the Savior of the world; to go to the cross to pay the penalty of our sin. Here is another familiar Bible verse that is packed with much truth. John 316 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life.” In John 14:6 we read that Jesus is the bridge to God when He said “I am the way the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the father but by me.” Friend, I encourage you to trust in God and His provision His Son Jesus Christ for your salvation.
Consider this: Trust Him when dark doubts assail thee, Trust Him when thy strength is small, Trust Him when to simply trust Him Seems the hardest thing of all. Trust Him, He is ever faithful, Trust Him, for his will is best, Trust Him, for the heart of Jesus Is the only place of rest. Source Unknown. Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” God bless you in your journey of learning to trust God.
