Yes…“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your path.” Proverbs 3: 5-6
This was one of the few first scriptures I memorized when I became a Christian. It seems to sum things up…. Make God the first One you go to with any decision you need to make or anything you don’t understand. I truly live by these words.
Recently, there was something that had me convinced was a long-awaited answer to a prayer. After all, I was trusting God and seeking Him with all my heart… So I believe this to be an example of obeying proverbs 3: 5-6:
Like I said, I was sure I had the answer. But the problem came about when I told my husband what I believed the answer to be. Again, I had the “trusting in the Lord” thing down. I honestly thought I was seeking His will. In fact, I knew I was walking in faith. But to my surprise my husband completely disagreed, and you can guess what happened… a fight broke out! His words completely crushed me. Now do I believe my husband was right in the harsh way he went about things? No. No way. But after sulking over what had just happened, a thought came to me… Yeah, I had the “trusting in the Lord” part down, but the latter part of that proverb hit me like a ton of bricks. I’ll explain.
The words written in 1 Peter 3:1 came to my mind…
”In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands.”
Ouch!! Us wives have such a hard time with this! Amen? Years ago when I was a new Christian, I remember talking to a godly friend about this. She told me that being hard-willed herself made it very challenging at times to obey this. But she made sure to clearly reinforce this to me: As wives, we need to obey this because it is God’s will (“Seek his will in all you do and he will direct your paths”). She taught me that God will always honor us for keeping His Word. She also told me God will sometimes immediately give wisdom to our husbands about certain things that affect us, and even if our husbands do or say the wrong thing, God will always have our backs because we kept His Word and really trusted HIM to do what’s best for us.