Weekly Devotional 3rd of October, 2025
by Bruce Billington
Weekly Devotional 3rd of October, 2025
Friday 3rd of October 2025 – Session 5
In this session, we will continue to look at Proverbs Chapter Three.
Proverbs 3:5-6 – “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
These two cherished verses depict a life of complete dependence and dedication to God. This is what our Heavenly Father desires from us, His dear children—all who genuinely follow Him. He longs for us to rely fully on Him and to have total confidence in His guidance. The verses serve as a call to live our lives reverently before the Lord. In everything we do, we should constantly be aware of who God is and submit to His rightful authority over us.
When God has clearly spoken through His special revelation to us (the Bible) and our understanding appears to conflict with His Word, we must defer to Him and submit to His authority in our thoughts and actions. This trust does not come from the head but from the heart. It is not the result of reasoning; it is the result of believing.
“Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.” (Romans 4:3). The Hebrew word for trust (batach) suggests lying helplessly face down, while the word for lean (sha’an) means to support yourself on something or to rely on something. Combining these two words in one sentence gives the impression of someone being helpless and needing significant support from another.
God is trustworthy because of who He is. Yahweh is His personal name. It is the name by which He revealed Himself to Moses and to the children of Israel (Exodus 3:13–15). The trust He seeks for us to have in Him is an all-or-nothing proposition. Partial trust is not trust at all. Either God is trustworthy, or He is not. If He cannot be trusted with all, He cannot be trusted at all. We must make a choice: we can follow our own understanding or trust in a God who is far greater than our understanding. What we must recognise is that our own understanding is not trustworthy. It is darkened by our nature of sin, spiritual blindness, and hard hearts.
Isaiah 55:8-9 – “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways.”
Common sense is useful, but God’s ways do not always align with human common sense. Scripture tells us that the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men (1 Corinthians 1:25).
We all acknowledge God in our own ways. We should consult Him when making plans and seek His counsel in every matter. The Hebrew word for acknowledge in Verse 2 (yada) has a deeper meaning. It refers to the same experiential knowledge that David shared with Solomon, as David was at the end of his life. He said,
“As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.”
The POSB says,
Our trust in God grows as we learn more and more about Him. The more we know God, the closer we draw to Him and the easier it becomes to commit our ways to Him. Trusting God cannot be separated from intimacy with God. These three…
- trusting Him
- leaning wholly upon Him
- knowing Him intimately
…are the mechanics of a life that is totally committed to Him. If we live such a life, we are assured of this promise: He will direct your paths or make them straight.
God bless you.
Bruce Billington