Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5
Visualize something leaning. What are you seeing? Can a thing lean against itself? What we lean on, or depend on, determines how long we can stay up. If we are leaning on our own limited (and often corrupt) understanding, we will be like the unwise mentioned throughout Proverbs. Take, for example Proverbs 28:26, “He who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom is kept safe.” Proverbs 19:20 exhorts us to “Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise,” and “he who trusts in the Lord,” Proverbs 28:25, “will prosper.”
God’s Word gives a different spin on ”self-reliance,” eh? Lord, help me not “go it alone” but wisely lean into Your abiding presence!
