“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
(Pro. 3:5)
One of the most difficult things in the Christian life, I find, is in learning to cease attempting to lean on my natural understanding in spiritual matters and to trust the Lord. Notice in our text you need not go to the Hebrew to find the meaning of the word trust. The English interprets it for you, to trust in, is to lean on, 2 Kgs. 18:21. To trust in your own understanding is to lean on something weak and unreliable for aid, like going to a shallow river or swamp and taking a straight hollow stalk from the tall grasses to lean on as support.
Understanding comes with time, hindsight, if you please. Jesus told Peter, “What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.” When our Lord spoke to His disciples concerning His upcoming sufferings, death, and resurrection, we’re told they understood not the meaning. But afterward we find they did. The book of Hebrews teaches us, “By faith we understand…” When things happen in our lives hard to be understood that is when we need to trust God. “Then opened He their understanding.” If we patiently wait, our “then” time will come!
Tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long
While there are others living about us
Never molested though in the wrong
Farther along we'll know all about it
Farther along we'll understand why
Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine
We'll understand it all by and by.
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