Proverbs 3:5-6 - "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths."
What does God mean by "all your ways"? God has taught me, through his word, that "all my ways" can be summed up as follows. Knowing and trusting God through Jesus is the only "Way" (John 14:1-7) for us to live if we want to live abundantly now and forever. And then, within the overall Way of Jesus, there are two smaller "ways" that cover everything also, namely, the way of praising God and the way of thanking God.
For example, I think about how I often am with a big meeting. Through the day, God stops me at various times to pray for the meeting and entrust it to him, I find myself either being quite calm and peaceful about it. Or I find myself becoming a little nervous and anxious about it. When I'm calm and peaceful, I thank God, for God alone can give peace (Galatians 5:22-23). And when I'm a little nervous and anxious, I praise God as the One who alone can promise to give peace (Galatians 5:22-23) and then does! In other words, I either thank God for what he does (give peace). Or I praise God for who He is and, therefore, what He alone can and will do (give peace).
Ya see, when we're in Jesus Christ, through faith, in everything that comes upon us in the course of a day, there are only two possible ways to see it, namely, thank God for the good thing he's already done or praise God for the good thing that he will do because he is a good and gracious and mighty God all the time!
So, may we be found acknowledging the Lord in all our ways today! May we taste the Way that is the Life of Truth in God through Jesus Christ as we thank him for the good thing that we're tasting or as we praise him for the good thing that he'll surely bring about!
Trust him in these ways, and you'll see!
Proverbs 3:5-6 - "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths."
Praise God!
Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson
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