Jesus is the good shepherd cling to him and not your own understanding...Today's Scripture:
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5
If you are going to lean on something, the first thing you want to do is to make certain it can hold you up. The greater the risk, the more certain you want to be. You may not test the strength of every chair you're considering sitting on, but it's fairly certain that you will test the integrity of a bungee cord before attaching it to your feet and leaping off a bridge. Your trust in the strength and reliability of the bungee cord allows you to lean on its ability to save you. It still may take a lot of courage to go ahead and jump, however.
Believing in God is all about risk and trust. It tells you to turn away from what you're accustomed to relying on- your own strategies for making life work - and instead to trust God implicitly, even when what he's asking you to do may not make sense from a human perspective. Think about what God asked of Moses at the Red Sea or of Daniel in the lion's den. Moses and Daniel were able to rely on God instead of on their own understanding because past experience had shown them he was wholly trustworthy.
Every past experience was once a present choice.
God challenges you and me to choose wisely today. We can lean on our own limited understanding and abilities or on a God of unlimited power and love. Only one choice can take you where you really want to go. I have preached this message so many times and have blessed to have witnessed first hand lives that have been changed and miracles that have taken place through the power of leaning on our Lord and letting go of our past. I here the message just as clear today in this blog as the first time that this word spoke to me as a 17 year old boy who thought he knew everything and really knew very little. I'm thankful that our God is there for each of us to lean on and pull us through all that life throws as us.
"Put what you've learned into practice. Think of why you believe God is trustworthy, focusing on his promises and past faithfulness. Review this list you've made anytime you need courage to lean on him instead of yourself. God will get us through if only we will rely on Him to be our Good shepherd."
Believing in God is all about risk and trust. It tells you to turn away from what you're accustomed to relying on- your own strategies for making life work - and instead to trust God implicitly, even when what he's asking you to do may not make sense from a human perspective. Think about what God asked of Moses at the Red Sea or of Daniel in the lion's den. Moses and Daniel were able to rely on God instead of on their own understanding because past experience had shown them he was wholly trustworthy.
Every past experience was once a present choice.
God challenges you and me to choose wisely today. We can lean on our own limited understanding and abilities or on a God of unlimited power and love. Only one choice can take you where you really want to go. I have preached this message so many times and have blessed to have witnessed first hand lives that have been changed and miracles that have taken place through the power of leaning on our Lord and letting go of our past. I here the message just as clear today in this blog as the first time that this word spoke to me as a 17 year old boy who thought he knew everything and really knew very little. I'm thankful that our God is there for each of us to lean on and pull us through all that life throws as us.
"Put what you've learned into practice. Think of why you believe God is trustworthy, focusing on his promises and past faithfulness. Review this list you've made anytime you need courage to lean on him instead of yourself. God will get us through if only we will rely on Him to be our Good shepherd."
Your pastor,
Rev Patrick Muston
Selah Christian Church
Four Oaks, NC
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