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Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV) – [5] Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; [6] in all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
1. It is prideful to make plans without God.
James 4:13-16 (NIV) – [13] Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” [14] Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. [15] Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” [16] As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
Trust with God as the goal or object means to regard him as the source of wisdom and power in all things and therefore worthy of your entire confidence. The act of trusting is sometimes expressed figuratively as “putting your heart in the hands of” or “laying your liver on someone.” (UBS Old Testament Handbook Series)
Lean not on Your Own Understanding
Lean (shaan) means to support oneself, to rely on, to rest.
2 Samuel 1:6 (BBE) – [6] And the young man said, I came by chance to Mount Gilboa, and I saw Saul SUPPORTING HIMSELF on his spear; and the war-carriages and horsemen overtook him.
2 Corinthians 10:3-4 (NLT) – [3] We are human, but we don't wage war as humans do. [4] We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.
2. We cannot support ourselves with our own understanding.
“The danger, of course, is that we lean on our own understanding and thereby miss God’s will. This warning doesn’t suggest that God’s children turn off their brains and ignore their intelligence and common sense. It simply cautions us not to depend on our own wisdom and experience or the wisdom and experience of others.” (Wiersbe)
Isaiah 31:1 (NIV) – [1] Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who RELY on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or seek help from the Lord.
3. We are not to rely on our own understanding.
2 Chronicles 14:11 (NJKV) – [11] And Asa cried out to the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, it is nothing for You to help, whether with many or with those who have no power; help us, O Lord our God, for we REST on You, and in Your name we go against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; do not let man prevail against You!”
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3-5-6
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV) – [5] Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; [6] in all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
1. It is prideful to make plans without God.
James 4:13-16 (NIV) – [13] Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” [14] Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. [15] Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” [16] As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
Trust with God as the goal or object means to regard him as the source of wisdom and power in all things and therefore worthy of your entire confidence. The act of trusting is sometimes expressed figuratively as “putting your heart in the hands of” or “laying your liver on someone.” (UBS Old Testament Handbook Series)
Lean not on Your Own Understanding
Lean (shaan) means to support oneself, to rely on, to rest.
2 Samuel 1:6 (BBE) – [6] And the young man said, I came by chance to Mount Gilboa, and I saw Saul SUPPORTING HIMSELF on his spear; and the war-carriages and horsemen overtook him.
2 Corinthians 10:3-4 (NLT) – [3] We are human, but we don't wage war as humans do. [4] We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.
2. We cannot support ourselves with our own understanding.
“The danger, of course, is that we lean on our own understanding and thereby miss God’s will. This warning doesn’t suggest that God’s children turn off their brains and ignore their intelligence and common sense. It simply cautions us not to depend on our own wisdom and experience or the wisdom and experience of others.” (Wiersbe)
Isaiah 31:1 (NIV) – [1] Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who RELY on horses, who trust in the multitude of their chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or seek help from the Lord.
3. We are not to rely on our own understanding.
2 Chronicles 14:11 (NJKV) – [11] And Asa cried out to the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, it is nothing for You to help, whether with many or with those who have no power; help us, O Lord our God, for we REST on You, and in Your name we go against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; do not let man prevail against You!”