Day Twenty-Eight: That she would not lean on her own understanding
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. –Proverbs 3:5
The fool in Proverbs is self-directed. The wise person will subordinate his/her thoughts, desires, decisions, etc. to the Lord. Our wives must lean somewhere. Either she will lean on her own understanding—her gut feelings, her emotions, her experience, her history, her husband. Or she will lean on the Lord and trust Him with all of her heart. At times the Lord calls us to do and to feel things that are contrary to our human wisdom. May our wives trust the Lord in those times.
Father, I thank you for a renewed mind. I am grateful that you are not only redeeming our souls but also our minds as well. Because of you we do not have to build our lives on the sand of our own thoughts. Thank you for being a guide for my wife. Thank you for leading her. Lord, I pray that you would cause her to lean not on her own understanding but upon you. Help her to “not be wise in her own eyes” but to fear you and turn away from evil (Prov. 3:7).
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