As children we have all heard it before, and as adults, Mom's saying continues to ring in our minds: "Honey, use your head!" She was and continues to be right. We could have avoided so many things if we would have just used our common sense.
But sometimes God calls us to do otherwise.
Proverbs 3.5
"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding."
We spend so much time and effort into studying God's Word and developing our knowledge of Christ. This is not wrong, but many times we neglect our hearts. God wants us to trust Him with our hearts, not our heads.
How many times have we told ourselves, "I shouldn't eat this" or "I shouldn't do this?"
Our reason can be correct, but it does nothing for us if we do not apply it.
Our knowledge of Christ is so very important and we should never cease to further develop it. But all our knowledge and reason do nothing for us if it stays in our heads. The Lord warns against leaning on our own understanding. When the Lord asks us to do something that seems unreasonable, do we refuse because of the lack of reason in it? How does our reason reason with the Lord?
He tells us, "I know it does not make sense, but that is why you must TRUST me!"
Trust God with your HEART!
Though knowledge and reason are important, let us not neglect our hearts' fellowship with the Father!
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