In all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. It is to regard our wisdom as better and greater than god’s. Trust is to be total (“with all your heart”) and exclusive (“lean not on your own understanding”)
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By shifting the weight of every decision, concern, and ambition onto god’s perfect wisdom, we find the security, guidance, and blessing promised throughout scripture.
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. “trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding” (proverbs 3:5) This verse speaks to the dilemma that everyone who chooses to follow god faces, how to trust and how to choose.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of god, what is good and acceptable and perfect. “trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding Do not lean on your own understanding further explains trusting in the lord One’s “understanding” in proverbs is his perception of the right course of action.
Do not be wise in your own eyes
We can regard this as an explanation of what it means to lean on one’s own understanding (proverbs 3:5)
