Proverbs 3:5 – What do you know?

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. - Proverbs 3:5

Of all there is to know, we know close to 0%. Things can be discovered and explained, but to know, to truly understand, is something else entirely.

We've discovered how babies are made. We can explain the egg, the sperm, fetal development, pregnancy, and delivery. It's scientific and academic. Our adolescent kids can explain it.

But do we know? Do we get how a liquid substance and its microscopic contents can fertilize another minuscule piece of delicate matter and form a new substance? A body? A heart? A mind?

We can study it all day long, we can explain the science perfectly, and we're still left with almost no understanding. What in the universe makes that thing come to be?

It's the same with most other things. Why does a planet spin and what makes it? Why does a peach have a flavor and what makes it? What made the fire orange or blue?

We have no idea. Or at least, no human idea we mere mortals can satisfy. What we think we know, we really don't. When we lean on our own understanding, in short time we'll topple from its weakness.

The better option is to trust the greater Mind. In scripture, the heart isn’t just our emotional center, but also where we process our deepest thoughts. To trust with all our heart means to submit our minds to the only One who really knows.

When we do, we don’t have to completely know. We can be content to wonder and get lost in the awesomeness of it all. Humbling, yet liberating.

In what aspect of your life are you leaning too much on your own understanding? Will you dare to trust?