We Just Don't Understand......

One of my favorite scriptures is Proverbs 3:5,6

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.

What I love most about this scripture is that my understanding is not necessary in order for me to walk with God. Comprehension really has little to do with faith. I don't think that many of us understood what our parents were doing when they were guiding us as small children. We just trusted them because they loved us and we loved them. It was all based on relationship. This is the failure of modern day Christianity. For some reason we treat God like a concept that has to be learned and understood. No wonder people are leaving the church in droves. Down deep inside we want our God to be real and personal. Guess what? He is!

Take a step back from all this religious stuff and ask yourself, Do I really know Him? Have I ever met Him? Men cannot understand women and women cannot understand men and there is a reason for that. God made that union to exemplify relationship. It's all worked out in a relationship that is vulnerable because love is vulnerable. Trust and faithfulness are necessary to make marraige work. Why did God do it that way?

I have a suspicion that God loves an on going relationship. There is real life drama in love and marraige that is lived out within the covenant. The same is true with God. If He seems far away then it is on us to seek Him because when we first came to Him we made an eternal covenant with Him. He is there in person and will never be found in religion.

It's about our journey with Him and we will never completely understand where He is leading us but that doesn't matter.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding......