This is a blog that I had started writing awhile back. Hope you enjoy some of my thoughts:
This morning in my time with the Lord I read over Proverbs 3. It’s a passage that I have looked over plenty of times. Particularly in verses 5-6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding…..etc
However, it’s interesting how the Lord can show you something new in such a seemingly familiar passage as this. The specific word that was highlighted to me in this passage was the word prosperity. In verses 1 and 2 it says: “My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you prosperity.” Properity. What does that mean? And in particular, what does it mean to me? Immediate things come to mind such as financial success, favor, pleasure. But what I was being challenged with was, what is the Lord’s idea of prosperity and success for my life?
It is so easy to get caught up in the uncertainty of things. What’s next? How do the things that I am choosing to do effect the plan for later? What if I pick the wrong thing, etc…
It hit me as I read this passage, He desires prosperity for my life….and with that means HIS best. It may not be prosperity as I see it to be or as I have made it to be but really prosperity in the eyes of My Father who knows what’s best for me.
So as I looked more intently into the word I looked at the verse : “In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.”
I meditated on what it meant to acknowledge God in ALL my ways. I realized that there were parts of my life that I was still holding onto and not fully bringing before Him. Things that I deemed not a “big enough deal” to bring before the Lord or that I wanted to still have control over. But it became clear to me that the more I brought these things before Him, the more the paths and details would seem less confusing and complicated.
So what does that mean for my life now? It means that I will be making a concious effort to bring everything fuly before the Lord. All the parts of my life. My future, my present. And that I bring up my questions, desires, fears etc before the Lord knowing that He’s walking with me.
