Are You Smarter Than God?
Today’s Passage – Proverbs 3 – 6
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. (Proverbs 3:5 – 7)
I just wanted to give you a quick though this morning from our daily devotional reading. I am looking forward to preaching this morning from Psalm 126 on “Reaping While Weeping”. I hope to see many of you here at the church.
Solomon demonstrated that he was a very wise man throughout most of his life. We know that later in life he drifted away from that wisdom and violated some of the very principles that he penned earlier in life. I have often quoted Proverbs 3:5 & 6; but this morning, I thought particularly about the phrase in in verse 7, “be not wise in thine own eyes.” We often demonstrate by the life that we live, that we think that we are smarter than God. How often do we do what makes sense to us humanly, often at a violation of Biblical principle. We think that somehow God possibly did not have all of the facts, or perhaps he did not fully understand our situation. So we ignore clear principle and do our own thing.
As God’s people, we need to resist the strong temptation to do what seems right to us and follow the principles of the Word of God. I think the biggest hinderance to doing this is a daily time spent in those principles. We are Bible negligent, which has caused us to be Bible ignorant, which has led further to Bible disobedient. Daily reminders from God will encourage us to trust Him. Faith does come by hearing. We need to be constantly exposed to the Word of God through our daily reading and through are attendance to the preaching services of our local church.
Why not determine today that you will make the principles of the Word of God a bigger part of your life: learn them; think about them; and then obey them.
Posted in Devotions by Phil Erickson with 3 comments.
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Love the post. Sometimes I battle within myself between my own understanding and interpretation and how God interprets things.
I always find that Gods way works.
The world, our own thinking and worldly advice will tell you something completely different to what God wants you to do.
I have seen God work in my life in tremendous ways. in the worse situations I call for Him, and He answers. I feel God has acted in my life in ways that are uncomprehenable to the reality of the situation or context by simply being 100% dependent on His grace and power.
I really do try hard not to lean on my own understanding, but on God and be dependent on him. As I grow, I find myself leaning more and more on God and putting whatever I am dealing with in his hands through prayer.
This is when I feel the true power of having faith, and it is amazing.
love the Lara Posts!!!