I find the Lord rarely lets me wait until I feel ready…

 

Often I’m in a sudden catapult, “Here ya go girl.”

 

I guess if I ever actually felt ready, maybe I’d be less apt to lean into and onto the Holy Spirit.

 

He seems to mean business when He says, “Lean not on your own understanding,” huh?

 

My own understanding is all that I think I understand. My understanding when it comes to the scriptures. My understanding of how He moves. My understanding of His will. My understanding of how things should be done and when they should be done, quite frankly.

 

My own understanding is not fully able to grasp God and His higher ways. Based on my own understanding, I’ll limit the ways He speaks, for I’ve only experienced some of His ways, not all of His ways.

 

My own understanding may even call something (or someone) that is of God not of God because I’ve no real understanding of Him in every single circumstance.

 

My own understanding will mislabel people, places, and things because there is a limit to my own understanding.

 

“I will show you unsearchable ways you do not know…” Worthy of pondering because unsearchable means my understanding is void of the concept because it’s not something I’m able to search out. It’s why we need Holy Spirit to bring supernatural revelation. I hate to break it to you, but He has mysteries that, I promise you, we haven’t a clue about.

 

Even my own understanding of scripture has its limits. Without the mind of God, while reading, I can still end up in error. Some of the people who quote scriptures the most and even the best have been the meanest I’ve ever known. How does this happen? Somebody is full of “leaning on their own understanding.”

 

Most of God’s moments with me have been hard to explain. Sometimes He clearly leads me through His Word, while other times I feel like I’m walking in a minefield with my eyes closed as He teaches me to hear His voice better.

 

It’s in those places where it’s life or death that I’m all done with leaning on my own understanding. For my own understanding might well kill me.

 

So listen…jump into this supernatural stunning, yet terrifying, ring with me, why don’t you?

 

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)