Quiet Moments With God

Day 3: Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Do not depend  on your own understanding. In all your ways remember Him. Then He will make your paths smooth and straight.

I like how it reads in the Message:

Trust God from the bottom of your heart. don't try to figure everything out on your own. Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He's the one who will keep you on track.

It goes on to say: Don't assume that you know it all. Run to God! Run from evil!

"Trust God from the bottom of your heart."  This is not just a trusting God when it makes sense. This is trusting God with every part of you. Knowing without hesitation that He will be there, He will protect you, strengthen you, take care of you. That He is all you need!

"Don't try to figure everything out on your own."  Even the easy stuff He wants us to bring to Him. We often mess things up because we try to figure things out on our own first and only turn to God when we have made such a mess of things we don't have any idea what to do to fix it. God wants to be the first one we turn to with the good, bad and the ugly!

"Listen for God's voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He's the one who will keep you on track."  As written in the first translation, I always read this and said to myself, "I must be doing something wrong because my path is not smooth or straight." But really that is not what this verse is saying. Thus I like the way the Message says it, Listen for His voice and He will keep you on track! It won't always be easy, in fact the closer we get to His return we can count on it not being easy at all, but when we listen for His voice and follow its leading, we will stay on the track that leads us straight to Heaven!

So, I have the head knowledge. Now to apply it to my heart. To Run to God in everything first before I panic, before I have a melt down. This is my work in progress!