Steve Webb: Remember the promises of God, they don't
change and he never fails.
It's the Lifespring! One Year Bible coming to you from
Riverside, California and podcasting since 2004. I'm your
OG Godcaster. Steve Webb. This is the daily podcast where we're
reading through the entire Bible in a year. It's so good to be
with you today. This is poetry Thursday, and we'll read
Proverbs two and three. I'm calling this episode, trust.
Before we get started, let's pray. Our gracious heavenly
Father, how we thank You for Your Word, and we thank you for
this time together. I pray, Lord, that You would teach us
open our hearts, open our eyes and bless this time I pray in
Jesus name. Amen. Okay, are you ready? Let's get started.
Proverbs chapter two, my son, pay attention to what I say.
Remember my commands, listen to wisdom and do your best to
understand. Ask for good judgment. Cry out for
understanding. Look for wisdom like silver, search for it like
hidden treasure. If you do this, you will understand what it
means to respect the Lord and you will come to know God. The
Lord is the source of wisdom, knowledge and understanding come
from his mouth. He gives good advice to honest people and
shields those who do what is right. He makes sure that people
are treated fairly. He watches over his loyal followers. If you
listen to him, you will understand what is just and fair
and how to do what is right. You will gain wisdom and knowledge
will bring you joy. Planning ahead will protect you and
understanding will guard you. These will keep you from
following the wrong path and will protect you from those who
have evil plans. Such people have left the straight path and
now walk in darkness. They enjoy doing evil and are Happy with
the confusion it brings. Their ways are crooked, they lie and
cheat. Wisdom will save you from that other woman, another man's
wife who tempts you with sweet words. She married when she was
young, but then she left her husband. She forgot the marriage
vows she made before God going into her house leads to death.
She will lead you to the grave, all who hit her lose their life
and never return. Wisdom will help you follow the example of
good people and stay on the right path. Honest people will
live in the land in those who do right will remain there, but the
wicked will be forced to leave. Those who lie and cheat will be
thrown out of the land.
Proverbs chapter three. My son Do not forget my teaching, but
let your heart keep My commandments for length of days
and years of life and peace they will add to you. Do not let
Kindness and truth leave you bind them around your neck.
Write them on the tablet of your heart so you will find favor in
good repute in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with
all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In
all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths
straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord in turn
away from evil. It will be healing to your body and
refreshment to your bones. Honor the Lord from your wealth and
from the first of all your produce so your barns will be
filled with plenty and your vats will overflow with new wine. My
son do not reject the discipline of the Lord or loathe his
reproof, for whom the Lord loves He reproves even as a father
corrects the Son in whom he delights. How blessed is the man
who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding, for her
profit is better than the profit of silver and her gain better
than find gold. She is more precious than jewels and nothing
you desire compares with her. Long life is in her right hand
in her left hand our riches and honor her ways or pleasant ways
and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who
take hold of her and Happy are all who hold her fast. The Lord
by wisdom founded the earth by understanding he established the
heavens. By His knowledge, the deeps were broken up in the
skies drip with dew. My son, let them not vanish from your sight.
Keep sound wisdom and discretion so they will be life to your
soul and adornment to your neck. Then you will walk in your way
securely and your foot will not stumble. When you lie down you
will not be afraid. When you lie down your sleep will be sweet.
Do not be afraid of sudden fear nor of the onslaught of the
wicked when it comes. For the Lord will be your confidence and
will keep your foot from being caught. Do not withhold good
from those to whom it is due when it is in your power to do
it. Do not say to your neighbor, go and come back and tomorrow I
will give it when you have it with you. Do not devise harm
against your neighbor while he lives securely beside you. Do
not contend with a man without cause if he has done you no
harm. Do not envy a man of violence and do not chase any of
his ways for the devious are an abomination to the Lord. But he
is intimate with the upright. The Curse of the Lord is on the
house of the wicked. But he blesses the dwelling of the
righteous. Though he scoffs at the scoffers yet he gives grace
to the afflicted, the wise will inherit honor, but fools display
dishonor.
Much of the teaching in chapter two and actually most of the
book is directed at one of Solomon's sons. So the teaching
is especially applicable to a young person just starting out
in life. But really, the lessons as noted earlier are good for
everyone. Now, Proverbs three five says, Trust in the Lord
with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.
Let's talk about that a little bit. Here's a guy Solomon who
could very easily be tempted to lean on his own understanding,
if ever there was one like that being as wise as he was being
given wisdom by God himself. But Solomon had evidently learned
that it's better to trust in the Lord with all your heart, then
to lean on your own understanding. Let's face it,
sometimes it is so hard to trust God with our whole heart, right?
Sometimes the bills pile up and we don't see any way out.
Sometimes we are misunderstood or mistreated. tragedy strikes
us or our family, we lose our job. Bad things happen even to
good people. And sometimes we look up and say, God, are you
there? Do you see what I'm going through? Why don't you help me?
I need you now. And sometimes it seems as though our prayers
aren't heard. It seems as if God has just turned a deaf ear.
Beloved, those are the times when we tend to lean on our own
understanding, right? We take the wheel. After all,
something's got to be done. We've all been through times
like that, haven't we? But it's when life gets hard that God is
giving us an opportunity to grow. Hang in there. Remember
the promises of God? They don't change. And he never fails.
Never. Even in the darkest times of my son's illness. Several
years ago, the lovely lady Liana and I never gave up on God. And
slowly but surely, Stephen recovered. And at every turn, we
prayed and we praised. Now I don't know what you're going
through right now. And I don't know what God's plan is for you.
But I do know that trusting in Him with all your heart is
infinitely better than leaning on your own understanding. Well,
beloved, how are you doing on the "leaning not on your own
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prophecy Friday and we'll read the book of Lamentations.
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