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MAKING LIFE’S PATH’S STRAIGHT
Pro 3.5-6
INTRODUCTION
Choosing a straight course through life is not always easy.
God, in this familiar and beloved passage, has given us a simple formula that enables us to walk in paths that He has made straight.
Best known chapt. of Bible: Psa 23.
Best known vs: b/t Jn 3.16 & Pr 3.5-6 Two imperatives: “trust” and “acknowledge”.
“Trust” – every person is a trusting creature, always leaning on something.
1. PLACE CONFIDENCE IN GOD COMPLETELY.
“trust”
all fr.
root to complete.
This is not the unmeaning expression from the lips of the ignorant and ungodly.
Nor is it the cold assent of the enlightened` judgment.
It is the trust of the heart, of all the heart.
A child-like, unwavering confidence in our Father’s well-proven wisdom, faithfulness, and love.
Is a choice b/t being God-trusting or self-trusting.
e.g.
children of Israel.
Psa 78.18-22.
e.g.
“b/c he’s my dad.”
“the LORD” – the All-Merciful, the All-wise, the All-powerful, the unchanging amidst all changes, the All-loving amidst hostilities, the All-enduring amidst all dissolutions, the On and only One, not it or them , but HIM. 1 Ti 1.17 only wise God
1.1 Place confidence in God entirely.
“with all thine heart.”
Must be entire.
Unquestioned, undivided confidence.
Must be trusted lovingly, not as a matter of expediency or dry duty, but as a matter of supreme affection
1.2 Place confidence in God exclusively.
“lean not ...understanding.”
“lean” – Niphil Imperfect - pass. of Qal; imperf.
a process.
lit. to not be supported by yourself.
Lean your weight upon God.
Song: Leaning to lean // learning to lean // I’m learning to lean on Jesus // Finding more power than I’ve ever dreamed // I’m learning to lean on Jesus..
e.g.
Judge Roy Moore - Chief Justice Alabama State Supreme Court.
Q - Will you continue to acknowledge God?
A - Yes I will.
Q - I mean, when you return to the bench, you will continue to acknowledge God?
A - Yes I will b/c the constitution of the state of Alabama demands it.
In his mind, a case of ought to obey God rather than man.
e.g.
A little boy was walking down the beach and he approached a lady that was seated on the beach reading a book, and he stopped and he looked at her for a moment, and then he asked her, “Lady, do you believe in God?”
She was a little startled by such a question but she answered him, “Why, yes I do!”
And he said, “Good” and he just stood there and she went back to reading her book.
She was kind of hoping that he would just go away, but he didn’t.
A few seconds later he said, “Lady, do you go to church?”
She stopped her reading and said, “Well, yes I do.”
“Good” he said.
Again he just stood there and she went back to reading.
A few seconds later he said, “Lady, do you read your Bible and pray?” “Yes, I do!” she replied with a hint of sternness in her voice.
He said, “Good, would you watch my quarter while I go for a swim?”
While we are told to submit to authority, we are not commanded to trust those in authority over us.
Rather we are to submit to them trusting in God.
e.g. a wife cf 1 Pet 3.5
Once man’s understanding gave clear unclouded light since man was created “in the image of God.” (Gen 1.26; Col 3.10) But now it has been degraded by the fall.
This trusting instinct corrupted by the curse of sin, hence our tendency to lean on the wrong thing, go in the wrong direction.
“Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:” (Eph 4:18 AV)
Is a false guide, will not support us.
Man naturally leans to himself, to his own notions and fancies.
Human power is his idol.
His understanding is his god.
“ Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.”
(Jeremiah 17:5 AV)
This is the history of the fall; the history of man from the fall; the dominant sin of every unhumbled heart, the lamented and resisted sin of every child of God.
Self-conceit is self-ignorance.
Self-conceit obstructs mental improvement.
Self-deceit destroys social influence.
No wonder Prov.
also says, “Seest thou a man who is wise in his own conceit?
[there] is more hope of a fool than of him.”
Pro 26.12
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Gehazi, servant of Elisha, leaned on his own understanding when going after Naaman to request payment when Elisha had declined it.
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And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Yea, thgey spake against God, they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Psa 78.18-19.
Self-dependence is folly.
“He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.”
(Pro 28.26
Self-dependence is rebellion.
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”
(Jer 2.13).
Self-dependence is ruin.
“For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said, None seeth me.
Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee, and thou hast said in thine heart, I am and none else beside me.”
Isa 47.10
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man .
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put cponfidence in princes.
(Psa 118.8-9).
“For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
(Pro 3.26).
In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and His childcren shall have a place of refuge.”
(Pro 14.26)
Phil 3.3 We ... have no confidence in the flesh.
“They whose wit / values itself so highly, that to that / All matters else seem weak, can hardly love, / Or take a shape or feelingt of affection / Being so self-endear’d.”
(Shakespeare)
“own understanding” – Do not allow our own understanding to be our support, yet we must use it in trusting God.
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