“DO NOT LEAN ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING!”

 

Proverbs 3:5-8                   (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. 

    [7] Be not wise in your own eyes;

        FEAR THE LORD, and TURN AWAY from evil. 

    [8] It will be HEALING to your flesh

        and REFRESHMENT to your bones.”

When I began writing my daily devotionals in late 2013, my purpose was to improve my word recall following the brain hemorrhage in 2007.  The speech therapist who GOD placed in my life had told me that a good exercise was to continuously “find words” and that might help me grow the proverbial “well” that I was dipping into?  Well, it has ……and IT SLOWED ME DOWN to where THE LORD could make me HEAR FROM HIM!!!

In the mid 1990’s, when I was beginning to work solo, my closest friend made me a FAX COVER sheet with the Bible verses Proverbs 3:5-6 on it. Well, I read it and my paths were anything but straight!  As a matter of fact, they were very tumultuous and scary!!  But THE LORD was there with me as HE was “adjusting” MY OWN UNDERSTANDING!!!  What I WASN’T doing was “trusting in the LORD with ALL MY HEART”!!!

You see, GOD knew precisely how stubborn and head headed I was, and HE “gently” had to MOLD me and MAKE me into what HE wanted me to become, IN HIS TIMING!!

GOD had to get me to the POINT that HE was being GLORIFIED, and I was NOT the center of the attention!  I am simply “tool” that HE is using to forward HIS KINGDOM!  HE had me right where HE could be GLORIFIED on July 29, 2007 after HE SLOWED ME DOWN!!!  

“DO NOT LEAN ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING” isn’t written as a suggestion!