Good morning,
"Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding". (Pro. 3:5) Trust means to have confidence and to be secure in Christ and His faithfulness to keep and work His promises out in our life. For some of us this is a little easier than others of us. Quite often because someone who we held in high esteem or respected, or, some other authority figure in our lives, that we have trusted has let us down, or have not kept their promises.
One day when I was a young Christian, I told God in a fit of anger that He was just like my parents. That he made promises to me, like them, and never kept them. There have been few times in my life that God's voice came across so stern and forceful as that day. He said, "do not ever equate Me to anyone else that you have known!" I remember that day and have to remind myself often of it, whenever I began to distrust His Word or His promises to me. Maybe you know what I am talking about, maybe you've felt like that before. Feelings are so fickle, we all have experienced times that we felt so strong about something and as time past our feelings about those convictions wained. So we can't let what we feel, dictate to us whether we should trust God or not. That is why the rest of the verse tells us not to rely on our own insight or understanding. 'Rely not or lean not ' means not to depend on confidently; or, not to be supported by our understanding. We can not think to much of our insight about the situation because at best it is limited to your own knowledge and wisdom. As smart and knowledgeable as some of us are about some things, none of us are all knowing. We don't know what will happen in the middle or the end, [unless God has revealed it to us], but God does know all things. "Declaring the end and the result from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure and purpose.." (Isa. 46:10) It doesn't matter what it looks like at anytime during the process of our believing, God's purpose and pleasure will be accomplished in our lives if we trust Him. Trust is a major issue of the heart and mind that we must settle. Every situation and in every circumstance, we must remember to put our confidence in Him and be secure in His faithfulness.
"For surely there is a latter end [a future and a reward], and your hope and expectation [the thing hoped and longed for]; shall not be cut off." (Prov. 23:18) Don't give away your hope because you don't see it right before your eyes now, you will not be disappointed. Most of the time we must encourage ourselves, by reminding ourselves that God is unlike anyone we know. He outshines the most faithful person that you have encountered. The second part to the verse we started with is; "In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths." (Pro.3:6) Our part to not having our end disappointed, is trusting God, and, not thinking we know it all, and, seeking His will in all that we do, then, even crooked paths will be made straight and plain. Today is as good a time as any, to do just that. It is never to late, as long as we are in the land of the living, we can have a new beginning so that our expectation will not be cut off. In fact, "better is the end of a thing than the beginning of it, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit." (Eccles.7:8)
Love,
Pastor D.
Daughters of Z 
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