Understanding

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding..--Proverbs 3:5

 

This is one of the hardest teachings in our faith. In fact, it is what our entire earthly life in God is about! Abraham did not lean on his own understanding when he left Ur for the "promised land." He led his family into a wilderness of unknowing. He believed that this God Who had called him was reliable, so, he acted on this belief. Moses had lived in the desert many years when God came to him in a burning bush,( how bizarre) and told him to go back into the very place his understanding told him never to return to. Mary, a very young Nazarene girl, was told by an Angel that she was chosen to bring the Messiah into the world, though she knew no man. Every fiber of her being and her understanding must have tempted her to doubt, but instead she said "let it be unto me.." . Jesus prayed three times in the garden of Gethsemane for the cup of suffering to be taken away. It wasn't, so He rose to meet His betrayer. Everyone of us are called to take up our cross and follow Him. We must not rely on our own understanding. If we do, we will never make it to Calvary, and the empty tomb.

 

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