Trust in the Lord with all your heart

" Trust in the Lord with all your heart —and do not lean on your own understanding!" Proverbs 3:5

Use your understanding—the Lord has given it to you for this purpose. To the lower animals He has given instinct—but man He
has endowed with powers of reason and reflection.

But while you use your understanding—do not lean upon it. By reason of the fall, it is darkened. Pray therefore for the teaching of the Holy Spirit, and ask that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened. Lean upon Infinite Wisdom, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart"—then you will be enabled rightly to use your understanding—in His light you will see light.

Many men of large mental capacity and great scholarship are in the dark respecting some of the simplest truths of Divine revelation—for they boast of their reason, glory in their learning, and lean upon their own understanding.

On the other hand, some people of small natural capacity, and who are destitute of any of the advantages of human learning—are truly wise; for they trust in the Lord with all their heart, and sit, with childlike simplicity, at the feet of the Great Teacher, and He reveals His truth to them, and allows them to enjoy its sweetness and to feel its power.

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