Where is your confidence actually resting? In this message from April 2025, Pastor Linda Reese worked through two of the best known verses in Proverbs and asked a plain question: when the job, the money or the health goes, what is left holding you up?

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Proverbs 3:5–6 (KJV)

Where are you placing your confidence?

Most of us lean on something: ability, savings, a plan. None of those are wrong, and none of them are load-bearing. Confidence that survives bad news has to rest somewhere that bad news cannot reach.

Start by asking for wisdom

The starting point is not a bigger effort, it is a request. God gives wisdom to those who ask for it (James 1:5), and Proverbs keeps setting wisdom against the kind of foolishness that is simply doing what seems right at the time.

Trust, honour, obey

Proverbs 3 puts trust next to honouring God with what you have and keeping His commandments. Those are not three separate projects. Trust that never changes a decision is not trust yet.

Peace on the other side of it

The promise attached is direction: He shall direct thy paths. Not a map of the whole route, but the next step, and peace while you take it.

Something to do this week

Name the thing you are leaning on, then bring one real decision to God before you make it. Related: Don’t Let Fear Stop You and What Is Prayer?.

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