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Trust That Does Not Lean

How Proverbs 3 ties trust to ordinary life

Today's Focus

The instruction is to trust the Lord with the whole heart and to refuse to lean on one's own understanding. Acknowledging him in all your ways is given as the condition, and the promise attached is that he will make the paths straight. The verses that follow apply the same trust to wealth, to correction and to the body.

Today's Steps

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Remember Today

Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
Proverbs 3:5
Acknowledge him in all your ways.
Proverbs 3:6
The Lord corrects those he loves.
Proverbs 3:12

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Questions this reading raises

What happens after death?
Scripture teaches that death is not the end but a passage into God's presence for those who trust Christ, and separation from him for those who do not. For the believer, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, and this immediate hope is followed by a future bodily resurrection at Christ's return. Death is appointed once, and after it comes judgment, which is why the question is never merely academic.
Who is God?
God is the one living Creator who made everything and depends on nothing, and Scripture answers this question mainly by telling us his character rather than by defining his substance. When God described himself to Moses he said he is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abundant in loving kindness and truth, and yet will by no means clear the guilty. The New Testament adds that this God is finally known in Jesus Christ, who has made him known.
Can the Bible be trusted?
Scripture claims to be true and invites examination rather than avoiding it. It says God's word is truth and that it stands when everything else fades, and the New Testament writers appeal to eyewitnesses, named places and public events rather than to private experience. Trust in Scripture is finally trust in the God who speaks in it, and the clearest reason a Christian gives for that trust is that Jesus treated these writings as God's own word.
What is sin?
Scripture defines sin as lawlessness, as falling short of God's glory, and as failing to do the good we know we should do. It is not only a list of bad actions but a condition of the heart that produces them, and it is first against God rather than only against people. Scripture also says all have sinned, that its wage is death, and that God is faithful to forgive those who confess.

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Questions this reading raises

What happens after death?

Who is God?

Can the Bible be trusted?

What is sin?

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