Most Worthy Lord, key words like … trust, lean, acknowledge and make straight … appear in Proverbs 3:5-6 as guides to achieving favor from You. Leaning implies putting ones whole weight on something or someone to gain relief or support. I have no reservation in admitting that I lean on You more times than not. It is nice to know that when I have no answers or feel weak, I have someone wise and powerful to sustain me. After battling with the ways of the world and the temptations of the enemy, it is comforting to know I have a backup who is stronger than I to fall back on. I do not view leaning on You as a sign of weakness … instead, a way of including You in my life. To trust You gives me the confidence and power I need to stand up under attack. I have no hesitation in trusting You for my solutions and resolutions. You have intervened to help me many times … which proves that You are trustworthy.
I know that You know what is best for me. You are a better judge of what I need than I am. I should trust You completely with every decision I make. By following You, I’m not to omit careful consideration of things or forsake my God-given gift of reasoning; but I should not lean on my own understanding to the exclusion of Your point of view. I must be willing to listen to You and be corrected by Your Word. The appropriate thing to do is bring my needs to You in prayer … use the Bible and the Holy Spirit to guide me … and follow their leading. I trust that You will show me the way to go and protect me along the way. By submitting my life to You, I am making a choice to acknowledge You in all of my ways. As I ask “what would you do” in helping me deal with issues in my life, I feel I am acknowledging You as the source to which I turn in my times of need.
By leaning, trusting and acknowledging you, I am convinced that You will make my path straight. Walking uprightly puts me in good standing with You. I cannot weave in and out of a relationship with You … going my way in good times and returning to You whenever the heat is turned up. A straight path is the most direct way toward anything important in my life. Changing my mind about what I believe and what I should do only demonstrates my indecisiveness and poor thinking. Within a process of learning to lean on You, trust in You and acknowledging You in all that I do, I will be kept on a straight and narrow path. I must be willing to run the race that You appoint for me if I want to achieve a direct path to the goals you have for me. I know that obeying You and remaining faithful to You will keep me leaning on You and that’s fine with me. And it’s in Jesus’ name I pray. AMEN!!
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all Your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all of Your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.