The Good Of The Father (The Trust Factor)

 

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and do not lean to your own understanding.  in all your ways acknowledge Him, And He Himself shall straighten your paths

Proverbs 3: 5, Concordant Old Testament 

One of the reasons that I love The Chosen series is that it provides us a good view of the relationship between Jesus and His followers.  the other day, a quote by Jesus in the Chosen caught my attention.  As Jesus and His disciples were contemplating a certain situation, Jesus proclaimed "Man makes it much harder when he leans on his own understanding."  Amen!  The author of the proverbs make this clear in the third book as he proclaims that we should "Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and do not lean to your own understanding" {Proverbs 3:5}.  I would venture to say that when we trust completely in the Father and forgo our own understanding of how things should be, we may just find Him leading us where He wants us to be.  I can think of many times in my life where my own understanding of things led me to wrong decisions.  What I felt was right in the moment ultimately turned out to be wrong.  For a time, my understanding was that all real men saw women as there for our own enjoyment.  Turns out I was wrong.  Had I not leaned on my own understanding, I may have discovered just what it was that the Father had in mind for me in that moment.  Yet, through much trial and error, I eventually came to that place where I leaned less on my own understanding of things and more on trusting the Father to guide me.  Indeed, there is a reason why the author of Proverbs invites us to trust in the Lord above our own understanding of things.  The desire of the Father is that He will guide us, and not we who believe in the lie and falsely believe that we live our own life separate from Him.  The reality is that we are created in His likeness {Genesis 1:27}.  In his own way, the apostle Paul illustrates this in Romans {Paul to the Romans 9:21}.  Has not the creator have the right over that which He created?  You would think so.  Yet through the love and wisdom of the Father, He created His own likeness (us) with the innate ability to choose.  We can choose to follow the Father, or we can choose to adhere to the lie and follow our own human understanding.  No matter which we choose, it does not have any bearing on who it is that we really are in Him.  

Now faith is an assumption of what is being expected, a conviction concerning matters which are not being observed 

To The Hebrews 11: 1, Concordant New Testament  

Over the years I have heard far too many people comment to me that they simply cannot believe in or follow a God Whom they cannot see with their own eyes.  However, how many instances do we encounter each and every day where we anticipate something which we cannot physically see?  We cannot physically see gravity, yet we more than likely place our faith in it each and every day.  We cannot see oxygen in the air, yet we know and understand that it's indeed there.  How is faith in a God Whom you cannot see any different?  You trust in your heart the effects of gravity upon the earth but you won't trust in your heart that God exists?  Going back to Paul's example, has not the Creator the right over that which is created?  I'm astounded at just how many people, when presented with the physical evidence of the Lords divine creation, continue to reject the idea that He could have created the heavens and the earth.  But, that's what you get when you lean onto your own understanding.  The truth is there if we choose to accept it.  If we set our hearts on the Father, He will straighten our path.

~Scott~