You don't have to figure it all out...

Issue 005

Trusting Him isn't giving up - it's finally letting go of what was never yours to carry.

I'm in the middle of something right now, I won't go into all the details, but I'll say this: it's a situation where what I see and what I feel don't match what I know God’s Word has promised. My circumstances haven't changed. My mind still wants to work it out, still wants to run the scenarios, still wants to doubt.

But this past week, I made a decision. I said, "Lord, I am going to consider this done. I'm not going to worry about how or when, it’s not mine to carry. You said it in Your Word and that's where I am going to stand."

Not because I've stopped caring or have it all figured out. But because I finally understood that my job was never to figure it out. My job is to trust.

That's what leads me back to Proverbs 3:5-6 this week.

Here's a question I want to ask you, Is there something you are trying to trust God with right now?

Maybe it's a relationship that feels uncertain. A decision you can't seem to make. A difficult situation at work, in your family, in your finances. A health issue you're waiting on answers for, or healing that hasn't come as quickly as you hoped. Whatever it is, have you been turning it over and over in your head, trying to work out the how, being afraid of the outcome, or hoping the answer will finally come if you just keep praying enough?

Proverbs 3:5 doesn't say "figure it out with God's help." It says TRUST Him with ALL your heart. That's not a partnership where you do 80% of the heavy lifting and He handles the rest. No, it’s a full transfer. A full and total laying down of the thing you've been churning over.

"Lean not on your own understanding." Oh this one is a challenge, because leaning on my own understanding is my default mode. It's where I go first, my own logic, my own experience, my own anxiety-driven projections of what might happen next. And God is saying: this is not the most reliable thing to do.

He's not saying you're not smart enough. He's not saying your feelings don't matter. He's saying there's a bigger picture you can't see and He can. He sees the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10). He knows what's coming around the bend that you don't yet know. And He's asking you to trust Him.

Verse 6 is where it gets good: "In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths." That word "direct" in Hebrew means to make straight, to smooth out. When we acknowledge Him, when we bring Him into the details, not just the big decisions, He begins to make the path clear. Not all at once. Sometimes just the next step. And sometimes you have to wait…and that means you have to TRUST.

So this week, whatever you are standing or trying to figure out in your head - stop - open your hands and say, "Lord, I don't understand this. I don’t understand why. But I'm choosing to trust You anyway."

And if you're standing on a promise right now the way I am - despite what you see, despite what you feel - consider it done.

Not because it feels done. Because He promised it. End of story.

Seek Him first in all things and let your life shine His glory.

Blessings ❤️ Amanda

"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness…" Matthew 6:33

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