Do not rely on your own insight

Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. Proverbs 3:5 AMP

It can be easy make decisions based on our own insight and understanding, and forget that there is a bigger picture, God's picture. Our own insight is minuscule compared to God's insight. He knows it all. We really don't even know ourselves! That is why he tells us that in all our ways, we need to know, recognize and acknowledge Him.

In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths. Proverbs 3:6 AMP

So often when things don't go as we planned or thought they should have gone, we can find ourselves questioning God. Where is He? What is He doing? The Bible tells us the answers to these questions:

Q: Where is He?
A: God is in the midst.  God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God will help her right early [at the dawn of the morning]. Psalm 46:5 AMP 

Q: What is He doing?
A. He is perfecting us. His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body (the church), [That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in faith and in the comprehension of the [full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him. Ephesians 4:12-13 AMP

Question for today, is there some aspect of your life that you are not happy about, or are feeling fearful about? Meditate on the scriptures I have shared today. Ask God to help you to trust that He has a bigger picture and it will be worked out in His timing. Ask God to help you allow Him to do the perfecting in your life that He is wanting to do. 

Be not wise in your own eyes; reverently fear and worship the Lord and turn [entirely] away from evil. Proverbs 3:7 AMP