Monday, 01 June 2009

• My Own Understanding Cannot Be Trusted

   

  

  "Trust in the LORD with all your heart
           And do not lean on your own understanding.

  Proverbs 3:5

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  TRUST!!!

  The word "trust" in the Hebrew is the word, "batach".  It means things like have confidence, be confident, be secure, be bold, feel safe, be careless.

  Another thing I read is, "to throw one down on his back" or "to throw in the face".  

  Picture this: 

  All hell is breaking lose around me and I just lay down on my back and rest there, full of confidence in the Lord, because I have literally just spent time tossing my cares in His face.  He is now in charge and there's no care or worry of mine powerful enough to put a dent in my circumstances for change.  I have entered a level of trust that is supernatural and mind boggling to the natural way of thinking!!! 

  This, my friend, is taking it to the next level.  It's a level that He calls each and everyone of us to walk in daily.  It can't be attained any other way than getting a fresh infusion of power straight from the throne room of Grace!

  "...with all thine heart"

  The word "heart" is the Hebrew word "leb".  This word denotes your thinking, reflections, memory, emotions, passions, courage, appetites, moral character, inclination, resolution and determination (of will)

  That would pretty much describe our whole being wouldn't it?  In a nutshell God is commanding us to:

  TRUST HIM WITH ALL

  "And do not lean on your own understanding."

  The contrast here is "trust in the Lord" or, "lean on your own understanding".  That's the choice we have been given.  Far too often we are bent on our own understanding of a situation/crisis. 

  A true definition of leaning on our own understanding would be this: 

  To calculate without God.

  Our circumstances will always try and dictate opposing things before God.  You and I are the one who will determine the course.  You and I will be a major factor in how much glory God gets.  To not be moved when the storm is raging seems like an impossibility.  My friend, it is possible to get to the point of being moved only by the Spirit of God.  This is our call and this is our goal in every troubled water that we find ourselves in.

  In my storm, I must find the Rock.  In my tribulation I must find the Shelter of the Most High and stay under Him.  When all hell is storming against my gates, I must become one with the Captain of the Host and meet the adversary with the Warrior Spirit that lives inside of me.  Until my final breath on this earth, there will always remain a reason to trust in the Lord with all my heart.  Every day on this earth, I will be tempted to reason with my own natural emotion and calculate without God.

  This is the way I will grow and mature in God.  I must trust less and less my natural vision in exchange for the Holy eyesight of my Heavenly Father who loves me and calls me the Apple of His eye!  I must grow in intimacy with Him.  I must remove the garments of fear and receive His garments of glory and love as I tread upon my path to my eternal home.

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  Jesus, help me today.  Reveal to me, where I am leaning upon my own emotional, natural understanding.  Lead me to the Rock that is higher than I.  I feel washed up on the beach, tired and worn out.  Tired of leaning on my own understanding of my circumstances.  Lies of the adversary swirl about my head.  Take me now, into Your shelter and tend to my aching heart.  Cover me in your garments of grace and glory.  Set me in a solid place.  Feed me at your table in the presence of my enemies.  I receive Heaven's fresh provisions today.  In Jesus' Name....AMEN.

  Hebrew words found: http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html

   

   

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