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LEAN ON HIM 2

Text : Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

If you are told to trust God with all your heart, it means that you can trust God partially. It means that man's heart can be splitted and divided into many parts. A man can partly trust God, and also trust in many other alternatives. 

For a typical man, there are varied options. If option A does not work, option B will work, and if B does not work, option C will work. This is how man's heart works since the fall in the garden. 

 A heart that is not fully settled on God, will surely lean on his own understanding. God wants the whole of our heart settled on Him. God wants the whole of you. Everything or nothing. We often find it difficult to focus on God and wholly trust Him because we lean on our understanding and not on Him. 

To trust God with all your heart is to settle on only one option-God.  When you cannot trust the Lord with all your heart, you will certainly resolve to leaning on your own understanding. Leaning on your own understanding, will lead to more and more alienation from God. The more you find yourself being able to do stuffs without God's help, the farther you keep moving away from God's authority over your life. Just as Cain left God's presence and he and his children brought about great innovation and civilisation(good and evil) outside of God's supervion,  authority and presence. Gen. 4:16-24

To experience God's salvation, we must totally depend and lean on Him in every single details of our lives. 

Our Lord Jesus said in John 5:19 "...Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise" Jesus during His earthly life only imitates the Father. He never lean on his own understanding. Your understanding must not take the place of God, rather it should be subjected under God in order to carry out Everything whatsoever He commands.


Bible Reading: Proverbs 3:1-6.

 *Prayer Points* 
1. Father give me grace to always trust in you with the whole of my heart.

2. Lord help me not to lean on my own understanding. 


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