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Health To Your Body

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Healing – Proverbs 3:5-8- Health To Your Body – Growing As Disciples

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not 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 and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones. Proverbs 3:5-8 (NIV)

Healthy Life 

I would like to live a healthy life. I would like to be a whole person. What’s the alternative? I know what living an unhealthy life looks like. I know what it means to be a broken person. How so? In the past, I lived an unhealthy life that caused me to be a broken person. That’s not good. No, it’s not.

What led you to live an unhealthy and broken life? That is a good question with a surprising answer. What’s that? I led myself to live such a life. I trusted in myself. I relied on my own understanding. I was self-reliant, self-centered and self-indulgent. I went where I wanted to go. I did what I wanted to do. I bounced around from one meaningless endeavor to another.  You might say, I walked a crooked path that wasted all my time and consumed all my energy. My life was filled with pain and suffering and brokenness. One thing became very clear to me. What’s that? I had no purpose or meaning or direction to my life. My life was without hope and joy. My unhealthy life wore me ought. I was tired to the bone. That’s not good. No, it’s not.

What changed? How have you traded in your old unhealthy life for one that is healthy and vibrant, and hope filled? I stopped trusting in myself. I quit relying on my own understanding. I began to admit the obvious. Which was? I don’t know it all. I need wisdom. I need understanding. I need direction. Obviously, I need you. I was not made to live my life apart from you. Nothing about my life works without you being my Savior and Lord. Only you can lead me on a straight path. Only you can give me wisdom. So, I turned my life over to you. I began to acknowledge you. I began to desire to live according to you will. I wanted to walk in your ways. What else? I began to have a healthy fear of you that helped me to shun evil. I wanted to live a life that was pleasing to you. I want to love you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength because you first loved me. You gave yourself to me. Now, I am giving myself to you. Now, I am living the healthy life that you have given me to live. That is very good. I know.

Lord, I will trust in you with all my heart. I will not rely on my own understanding. Instead I will acknowledge you in all my ways. Make my path straight as I humbly follow you. I will fear you and shun evil, so I can live the healthy life you have for me to live. Amen 

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Character – Proverbs 3:5-8 – Trust In The Lord- Growing As Disciples

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not 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 and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones. Proverbs 3:5-8 (NIV)  

Trust Me

The entire course of your life will be guided by how you answer one question. Are you ready to hear that one question? Yes, I am ready to hear the question that you want to ask me. Will you trust me with all your heart and mind and soul and strength? Let that question sink into your heart and mind before you give me your answer. Don’t rush to give me a quick answer. You answer must come from all that is within you. You must not say one thing and do another in answer to my question. What do you mean by that? You must not say that you will trust me with all your heart and mind and soul and strength and do just the opposite. That would not be good. No, it would not.

What would happen if you said you were going to trust me with all your heart and mind and soul and strength and then you did the opposite? Before I answer that question, I think I need to better understand what doing the opposite of trusting you would look like. If I don’t really trust you, who or what would I trust? That is a good question for you to think through and answer for yourself. Why is that? It will be important for you to recognize when you aren’t trusting me. So, go ahead and answer your question. If I don’t trust you I suppose I would start to trust everything and anyone other than you. I would trust myself most of all. I would pridefully rely on my own understanding. I would foolishly rely on the wisdom of others. How has relying on yourself and others worked out for you? Relying on myself and others has led me on a crooked path. I have foolishly wandered from one unproductive thing to another. I have suffered disastrous defeats and stunning setbacks. I have wasted a lot of time and effort on things that have not amounted to anything of value. I have worn myself out trying to live a self-indulgent, self-centered, and self-reliant life. I have gone nowhere and done nothing of lasting value as part of that life. That’s not good.

You have seen the error of your ways. You have turned away from the foolishness of your old life. You have turned away from evil. You are now loving, following and serving me with all your heart and mind and soul and strength. Yes, I am. So, I can, will and have been answering your question with my thoughts, words and deeds. I am not saying one thing and doing another. I am trusting you with all that is within me. I am giving to you all that I am, all that I have and all that I hope to be. Living the life that you have given to me is bringing health to my body and healing to my bones. I am walking on the path of life with you. You are leading and guiding my life. Yes, I am. That is very good. Yes, it is. 

Lord, so often, I have relied on myself. My own understanding has led me on a crooked path. I have wasted time and wandered from one thing to another. I want you to guide my life. I will trust in you with all my heart. Make my path straight as I follow you. Amen

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Discipleship – Proverbs 3:5-8 – Trust In The Lord – Growing As Disciples

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not 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 and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones. Proverbs 3:5-8 (NIV)

Straight Paths

What do those words mean to you? What do what words mean to me? What do the words, “straight paths” mean to you? If I were to have walked a crooked path I would have wasted a lot of time, energy, and resources. I would have gone where I shouldn’t have gone. I would have done what I shouldn’t have done. I would have lived with regret with the decisions and choices that I had made. I would have regretted opportunities that were lost because I had foolishly and crookedly bounced from one mistake to another. I would have to retrace my steps. I would have needed to back track to the place where I had made a wrong turn. You are speaking as if walking a crooked path is merely a hypothetical concept. Have you never walked a crooked path? I didn’t mean to imply that.

I have walked a crooked path. I have relied on my own understanding. I have made dumb decisions and foolish mistakes. I am a “crooked path” expert. I have bounced from one dumb idea to another. I get tired just thinking about how much time, energy and resources I have wasted by relying on my own wisdom and understanding. Have you learned any lessons? Yes, I have. Tell me, what lessons have you learned by relying on yourself and walking a crooked path. I have learned that I don’t have all the wisdom that I need. I have learned that it is foolish for me to rely on my own understanding. I have learned, maybe it would be better to say that I am learning, to trust you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength. That is very good.

What will you do differently because you are trusting me with all your heart and mind and soul and strength? I will freely admit that I need your help. I will depend on you. I will pray to you. I will ask you for wisdom. I will ask you to guide all my thoughts, words and deeds. I will turn away from evil. I will rely on your guidance. I will follow your instructions. I will follow you to where you lead me. I will do what you ask of me. I will acknowledge that you are the one who is working in and through my life. It is you who will help to walk a straight path. It is you who will help me to do what is pleasing in your sight. You will make me able to live and walk in a way that will bring healing to my life and health to my bones. Yes, I will. That will be very good.

Lord, I have frequently relied on my own understanding. What a mistake that has been. With my own understanding, I have walked a crooked path that has wasted time, effort and resources. Help me now, to trust you with all my heart, mind, soul and strength. Amen

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