Day Nineteen: Leaning on the Lord
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. –Proverbs 3:5
We have to make tons of decisions in our marriages. And our marriages will lean somewhere. Either we will lean on our own understanding—our gut feelings, emotions, experience, history, intuition, others, etc.—or we will lean on the Lord and trust Him with all of our heart. The fool in Proverbs is one who is self-directed. He patterns his whole life around his own understanding. But the one who is truly wise will subordinate his/her thoughts, desires, and decisions to the Lord. On occasion leaning on the Lord and not our own understanding goes contrary to human wisdom. In these times we must trust the rock solid anchor of God’s revealed Word. May our marriages be ones that trust the Lord in all times.
Father, we know that apart from you we would only have our own understanding. We would then be constantly leaning upon that which cannot hold the weight of our identities. So we thank you for renewing our minds and causing us to have an anchor in you. Because of you we do not have to build our lives on the sand of our own thoughts and understanding. Thank you for guiding our marriage. No matter what decisions we face help us to not lean on our own understanding but to lean on you. Help us not to be wise in our own eyes but to fear you and turn away from evil. Amen.
