August 3, 2013
Trust in the Lord
Proverbs 3:5-6
New King James Version (NKJV)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths. (Keyword: Trust in the Lord)
Proverbs 3:11-12
New King James Version (NKJV)
11 My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord,
Nor detest His correction;
12 For whom the Lord loves He corrects,
Just as a father the son in whom he delights. (Keyword: Be correctable)
Commentary:
Proverbs 3:5-6 says to trust in the Lord with all your heart. There must be a basis first. How can you trust someone unless you know him or have a relationship with that person such as a close family member or a long-time friend?
However, make sure you know which lord you are to trust in. There are three lords.
(1) The Lord Jesus Christ - the only one true and living Lord
(2) the devil - whom satanists have chosen to worship
(3) the self, the ego - that is yourself when you deem what you want as more important than what God wants (Miyagi)
So which lord are you trusting in?
I can trust the Lord Jesus Christ because I have spent time with Him and have gotten to know Him more and more with each passing day. I get even closer to Him when He answers my prayers. (Miyagi)
To lean on your own understanding means that you are trusting in yourself. You rationalize, justify, and defend your own actions. This is not the way of God, but of the devil. (Miyagi)
In all your ways acknowledge Him. That is simply saying “thank you, Lord” or “praise the Lord.” (Miyagi)
To acknowledge God is to be fully aware of and in fellowship with Him. (Hayford)
We must go to God for everything. We must seek direction from Him, not only in difficult cases when we don’t know what to do, but in every case. We must ask success of Him and always acknowledge Him with thankfulness. (Henry)
We were facing the issue of pest control in the kitchen even though we do our best to keep the kitchen clean. There is a brand of roach trap that we normally use and it is quite effective. But one day, another brand was on sale and we bought that other brand. I was disappointed when the roaches didn’t move in and the trap was empty. God showed me what to do. He showed me that the bait was not strong enough. He showed me to use different bait which I did and in a couple of days, roaches moved into the trap and stayed off the kitchen counter. I was happy because God showed me what to do and it worked. I was able to make use of the new roach traps after all. Praise the Lord!!
Proverbs 3:11-12 urges us to be teachable and correctable. In life, we will make mistakes. But if all we do is defend and justify our mistakes, we will never learn. Being correctable is learning from our mistakes and be willing to change. And when we are correctable and teachable, we shall gain wisdom.
Have you ever known someone who just despises correction? One who does this is not interested in gaining wisdom. He just wants to do his own thing. This is an example of a fool. Fools despise wisdom and understanding. They much rather go through life with absolutely no purpose and live aimlessly. For a person to be teachable and correctable, he must be humble. But how few in this world who are truly humble.
Conclusion:
We must trust God with everything that is in us and be correctable before Him. If not, we will never gain wisdom, but remain fools for life.
Poem:
There are really two choices in life
To trust the Lord Jesus or to trust in self
The former will lead you to God
The latter will lead you to hell
To be teachable is to gain wisdom
far beyond your years
To despise correction is to be a fool
resulting in regret and tears
So make sure that you are diligent
in seeking the Lord’s direction
and following His every guidance
and Holy revelation
For on that blessed day
when you are standing alone before the Lord
you will be glad that you had trusted Jesus
and depended on His every word
Byword: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, but make sure you are trusting in the right Lord.
Work Cited
Henry, Matthew, Matthew Henry Commentary, http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs%203:5-6&version=NKJV
Hayford, Jack W., Spirit filled Life Bible NKJV, Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1991.
Miyagi, Miyagi’s Commentary, The Body of Christ Jesus Fellowship, Makaha, HI., 2013
Aldwin and Wendy Naruse
The Body of Christ Jesus Fellowship
Makaha, HI USA
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