“DO NOT!”

 Proverbs 3:5-6                    (ESV)

    “[5] Trust in THE LORD with all your heart,

        and “DO NOT” lean on your own understanding. 

    [6] In all your ways acknowledge HIM,

        and HE will make straight your paths.”

Hiding from THE LORD is something that most of us would never admit to doing.  Yet we always want to YIELD to people who are “successful” in this world without any indication that they are connected to HIM??

Having THE LORD living inside of me is something that I usually do not want to publicize?  But is that what Solomon was writing about in Proverbs 1:7 when he wrote “THE FEAR OF THE LORD is the BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE; fools despise wisdom and instruction.”  King Solomon was known as the wisest man (1 Kings 4:30-34), yet he succumbed to his own desires , limiting what GOD could do through him. 

What Solomon wrote on Proverbs 3:5 needs to be absorbed by we who THE LORD is trying to use for HIS GLORY!  “Trust in THE LORD with all your heart, and “DO NOT” lean on your own understanding” should be the first thing I see everyday as I serve HIM. I am emphasizing “DO NOT” lean on your own understanding because that is where I generally stray from THE LORD!  I try to get a WORD from GOD, but then figure out a way to make it happen?  That usually leads to tumultuous times???

“DO NOT” lean on your own understanding is what I SHOULD be hearing ALL of the time!  But if I REMEMBER, “Trust in THE LORD with all your heart”, why would I want to TRUST IN my own understanding???  HIS WAY is my desire, and I “DO NOT” want tumultuous times in competing with HIS WAY!!!!