"Trust In The Lord with all your Heart"

                               "Trust In The Lord with all your Heart"


Proverbs 3:5-6 

"Trust in The Lord (יהוה) with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths."

Sounds easy right? Yes it does sound easy, but it is not easy to do!

Why is it so hard? Well because it pulls the carpet from under our survival instincts. The verse says : " ..Trust...with all your heart,and lean not on your own understanding..." . This makes the modern man so perplexed. Heart, understanding... what's the difference?! How do you discern , when is it that you Trust God with all your HEART and when it is that you are leaning and relying on YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING? Well I believe that even when we cannot explain intellectually or theologically at least intuitively we must sense the meaning of both, otherwise the Lord would not give us those instructions.

There is a difference between the understanding of our mind and soul and the function of the heart. 

In 1 John 4:18 it says : "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love." I believe that fear comes from our understanding and love comes from the heart. You cannot love from your understanding! Your understanding is a database, a database of all you experiences and information you gathered in your life. If we study the science of the human brain and psychology we will find that our understanding is not objective. Our database produces decisions upon not only facts and unfortunately this is the usual theological teaching. 

Understanding many time blurs our vision, but through the heart we can connect to the clear vision of things as God sees them! God is objective, God is stable, God doesn't have childhood traumas that make him be impulsive and subjective in his behavior. Unfortunately we are not as God and therefore our decisions are subjective and impulsive and in fact not based on true facts of the earthly and off course the heavenly realities. Therefore we must connect to this place called "the heart" and let it kick in. When fear comes, doubt unbelief, anger, jealousy and all the works of the flesh, connect to your heart and let it trust The Lord with all that is in it. 

God has a good plan for you! He wants to heal your soul and save it and help it to be aligned with your heart. Your compassion, your love, even your brokenness, they all come from your heart. No one sheds tears from his "understanding". Today, I encourage you to go on a quest after your heart. This journey might be the most painful but most rewarding non the less. Live your life without fear, believe in God's Love for you and His desire to strengthen you, comfort you and sanctify you. 

He is the most Awesome One you can encounter, but in His Grace He wants to enter your heart and live there and cause you to Trust Him to see Victory in your life, Peace and bring light to others around you. Those who look they shall find, Jesus said. I pray that you would discover the way to your heart and learn to Trust in Him and not on your own understanding.

1 John 4:17a

"Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness..."