Helena Bird

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

This saying to me highlights the fact that we should never trust our own human understanding when it comes to God. We, as humans we made by God for God, we should never strive to understand him. It is not within our own capacity to understand God. If we could understand God then we would be as great as God, which of course we are not.

We should never trust our own judgement over God. Personally I can’t understand why you would. God is greater than we could possibly imagine. He is unknowable and yet knows everything. He is the ultimate source of guidance. Trust in him and you are sorted. He will guide and watch over you for the whole of eternity, if you let him of course.

Trusting in God means surrendering our own human understanding and following in the guidance of God. If you ask him then of course he will lead you. Trusting in God means that if you feel he is calling you to do something you don’t consider it with your own reasoning. You do it. God knows you, your past, present and future. He laid down the path that you follow. He is the reason that you are. That doesn’t mean that you can’t think. It just means that you must ultimately accept that God is right.