Proverbs 3:5-6 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.
I heard it said that the best way to know God’s will is to have no will of our own.
Many of us experience difficulty finding God’s will in our lives. We have in today’s text the key to find the right direction for our lives. I would like to submit a major side to the perspective that tells God, “Here God, direct my path”.
The prime element of finding God’s will is, Trust in the Lord with all thine heart. In our dangerous society, we have lost the sense of trust. The idea of totally surrendering our critical functions and to lay in total surrender in the arms of someone, even God’s is rather foreign to us. We like to keep the controls, so we have to work at surrendering them.
He also tells us, lean not to thine own understanding. Trusting God means that we endorse His wild and sometime seemingly unreasonable ways before those coming form our own logical reasonable reasoning.
Now here comes the biggy: in all thy ways acknowledge Him. Sometimes we are like children who really want to do something but we afraid that wise Daddy will say no. So we go ahead without asking so we can say we didn’t know. God said, to acknowledge Him in all our ways; this means to let him know the full measure of what we have in mind so He can give us His piece.
Contrary to popular opinion, God is a gentleman. He generally doesn’t force His way on people. His Holy Spirit does come in to say its piece, but then we are left with the decision to go by its leadings or not. God though, will let us eat the full fruits of our own doing until we are sick of it and eventually ask Him for advice.
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