Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; – Proverbs 3:5 (NIV)
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. – Proverbs 3:5 (KJV)
Theme: Trusting God’s Plan
In whom do you trust?
It’s possible that one of our society’s greatest weaknesses today is that we think we’re too smart. We’ve developed amazing technologies that give us access to almost unlimited information via our smartphones and computers. We can send messages literally around the earth in seconds and post notes (like this one) on an internet that anyone in the world can view. We can fly almost anywhere on our planet in just hours and we regularly boost people and satellites into space. Our medical community can easily treat sicknesses that less than a hundred years ago would be fatal. The technological state of our society is pretty amazing if we pause to think about it.
The danger is that we start to think that we have it all figured out…that we’re so smart we don’t need God’s input as we decide what we should do from day-to-day. Why pray for God’s guidance on the school I should attend or the job I should take when I can ask Google or post the question on Facebook? That mindset, trusting in human “understanding”, is a recipe for failure. Advances in our technology and understanding are wonderful (and we should take advantage of them), but that’s not where we should ultimately place our trust. Proverbs 3:5 is a perfect reminder of where our trust should really lie.
So, again we ask, in whom do you trust? Do you place your trust in your “own understanding” or do you put your trust in the hands of the all-knowing, all-powerful God who created the very universe we live in?
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