I found it hard to meditate on JUST verse 5 without verse 6 joining us in my thoughts.
Trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
A strategy my husband recommended for my meditation is to take time to think about the verse while emphasizing a different word in the sentence each time. In this case, it really struck me when I emphasized "own."
Here I am trying to learn how to love the Lord with all my mind, and I'm reading to NOT lean on my understanding? How does that work? It all comes down to that word OWN. The first part, "Trust the Lord with all your heart..." that makes sense to us. We get what it means to trust. Here, we are trusting with our hearts...our emotions. The second part isn't as obvious, or at least, it wasn't to me. "...lean not on your own understanding." This could be restated, Trust the Lord with all your mind.
Think of the trust games we've done at camps or in team building exercises. You are expected to trust the other person to catch you as you do what? Oh, yeah, LEAN back... When I think of it that way it makes perfect sense. Lean fully on God's understanding. Lean fully on Him. Trust Him. Heart and Mind.
Trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
A strategy my husband recommended for my meditation is to take time to think about the verse while emphasizing a different word in the sentence each time. In this case, it really struck me when I emphasized "own."
Here I am trying to learn how to love the Lord with all my mind, and I'm reading to NOT lean on my understanding? How does that work? It all comes down to that word OWN. The first part, "Trust the Lord with all your heart..." that makes sense to us. We get what it means to trust. Here, we are trusting with our hearts...our emotions. The second part isn't as obvious, or at least, it wasn't to me. "...lean not on your own understanding." This could be restated, Trust the Lord with all your mind.
Think of the trust games we've done at camps or in team building exercises. You are expected to trust the other person to catch you as you do what? Oh, yeah, LEAN back... When I think of it that way it makes perfect sense. Lean fully on God's understanding. Lean fully on Him. Trust Him. Heart and Mind.
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