“Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.”
It is as we try to trust God yet still embrace our own insights and understanding that our faith will lack strength. In the book of James he warns in his letter to guard against being double minded. Some days it can be tempting to just see things as we are perceiving them to be. We can tend to view things from the “glasses” of our formed opinions and thoughts, and we can fall short of seeing things as God sees them. If we are leaning on our own understanding we are seeing things as we have concluded them to be. We need to remember that God is always seeing the bigger picture and He sees how all is working together for the good if we trust in Him.
Now let us look at totally trusting our Lord. If we are leaning on God and trusting in Him with all of our hearts and minds, it is truly a wonderful thing. Leaning upon God will bring rest to our souls. Sometimes in the midst of life’s hard blows it can cause us to be weary and tired. Let us meditate upon this refreshing scripture…
Psalm 37:7
Amplified Bible
“Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and patiently lean yourself upon Him…”