I Still Trust You.

            I still trust you. My burden is less.

   Proverbs 3:5  “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”

^That is leaning.

     Trusting in the Lord with all your heart. Abandoning sanity, not giving way to your own understanding. It’s simply agreeing with your weakness and saying,” You are God, I am man.” I trust what You are doing in my life. I trust You as the Good Shepherd of my soul, that You are leading me. It is saying, “You lead God, I will lean.”

      Besides… We can’t make it through the valleys or come up from the wilderness except when He is leading us, which implies that we must be fully and faithfully leaning.

     Agree with His leadership. Love Him as your leader, as the good, good shepherd. He doesn’t just lead you away from or out of the hardships, He also leads you to sit under the apple tree, to rest beside the streams of living waters. If you can’t trust Him when life is tough, how will you trust Him and more importantly remember to thank Him in the season of blessing?

 

     Leaning. It is being fully dependent. It is confessing that your life is not your own, that you belong to the one who is greater, who is completely other than. To say no to the leaning is to say no to God. It’s like saying, “My way is better than yours,” or, “I just don’t trust you, so I’m going my own way.” – What way is better than Gods way??? I mean He knows everything. He’s had the plan for redemption before He ever said, ‘Let there be…’ He’s already written your story, so why not go His way? But in the end, its up to you.

     Because He loves you, He lets leaning be a choice. It’s a choice you must make. And He respects your no. That’s just the way He is. He’ll lead you on amazing adventures, but ultimately it’s up to you to follow after Him. When He said to come, follow me, we have to make the decision to go after Him. To run together. (Sound a little like Song of Solomon? Yeah… I get it.) And saying yes, is saying yes to His leadership, which is saying yes to leaning. Figured I’d just state that again.

      “Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that it’s fragrance may spread abroad…” Song. 4:6

     Whichever way the wind blows, whichever way You choose to go Jesus, I will follow after You. I say yes to the invitation. I say yes to the leaning. I say yes to your leadership. I commit to following You—Let us run together! I confess that Your leadership is perfect. That I can do nothing without You. Lord, my heart is not my own, it’s Yours. I am Your garden. So come blow upon Your garden, and delight Yourself in me. My life belongs to You. And so, today I chose to lean. I lean into You, my beloved. Lead me. I will follow. I will lean. Teach me Your ways, that I may become more like You.

         Come, blow upon Your garden. I’m leaning, whichever way the wind blows. Amen.

Besides, that’s the end of the story… Leaning.