“Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6

How hard is it to actually do what the Scriptures tell us? Hard right? I believe that the reason it is so difficult and challenging is because we are TRYING in our own strength to do what we think we’re supposed to! “‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.” Zechariah 4:6 

Complete dependency on the Lord is what is required of us to do His will.  We were created to be utterly dependent on Him from the moment creation began.  This relationship is beyond mere human understanding: “lean not on your own understanding”…  In order to restore the fellowship that God intends for us we need to truly come to a place of complete submission.

Trusting means allowing God to direct every fibre of your being: “And He shall direct your paths”…  Sometimes our flesh can get in the way of truly following Christ the way we are meant to.  Our flesh can deceive us and make us think that its impossible to follow Christ, and that His teaching is too hard to understand: “Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?” John 6:60… and many fell away.  This is why we are instructed to “lean not on our own understanding” otherwise in our own human fleshly understanding it would be impossible for us to live an obedient life.

Relying upon ourselves only leads to failure. “Love never fails”… The greatest gift is Love and it is only through Love that we can be more than conquerors. Conquerors over sin!

We will never be perfect as long as we are in these fleshly sinful bodies.  Perfectionism is a sin that causes us to be self-righteous, and self-righteousness will never earn us a place in God’s kingdom.  We are called to be poor in spirit and pure in heart so that we may see God.  How could we ever accomplish this is our own strength or through our own righteousness? It’s impossible! But only with God are all things possible! So it is only through His power, and Spirit that we can enter His Kingdom.

We spend so much time worrying about all the things that need to done in our daily lives that we forget to stop and wait and trust in the Lord.  Maybe you’ve been hurt and you think that your capacity to trust has been broken, or your filled with doubt and insecurities, or you feel worthless and unwanted… If this is your story let God rewrite it and allow Him to lead you into the most beautiful relationship that your heart truly desires.  There is absolutely no substitute for His love!  Nobody will love you entirely and completely like God.