Trust The Lord With All Your Heart

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5 NIV). We do not have to understand everything to be able to trust with our whole hearts.

What does it mean to trust the Lord with our whole heart?

1. We surrender our need to understand. My mom reminded me that as a kid, there were things I could not comprehend. It did not matter how many questions I tried to ask. There was a point where I just had to trust her. I could trust her not because it made sense but because I knew she was trustworthy. God will not always explain the why, but we can trust in the who.

2. We surrender our need to be in control. It is easier to trust someone when you have a level of control. Knowing that you can intervene or escape a situation if need be helps relieve the pressure of true trust. With God, we have to let go of our need to be in control to allow him to be in control. Trusting him with our whole heart is making us vulnerable and dependent on his plan to come through.

3. We get off our understanding “crutch” and embrace God’s heart. Leaning on our understanding is a comfortable, tangible, and relatively safe option. We have all gotten through life situations with our coping mechanisms. God’s way is better than just passing through. Trusting God means embracing his heart without any other support. Only when we get rid of our training wheels can we experience the extent of his faithfulness.

Amen.