Proverbs 3:5 Faith not knowledge

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

I now see the meaning of this whole verse. Our whole goal in reading the bible is definitely not to know all about it. If there are things we don’t understand, we just let it go because God will eventually reveal things to you. If you’re ambition is to gain answers, what ends up happening is you become consumed in finding it while you forget the true aspect of Christianity, love God. So what if you don’t know who He is at that instance. What you need to know is the Jesus Christ and His crucifixion. Anything beyond that is showing you how to obey that command, which we know is to love God and others. Today, I came to a big failure in trying to seek understanding rather than seeking applications that the word always gives us. It was a bummer to see how everything ended, but you must learn now and ask yourself everytime you read, am I doing this to learn how to obey or am I reading to know what these things mean?

As the Psalmist writes in 119:34
Give me understanding, and I will keep your law and obey it with all my heart.

Mark 12:41-44 It’s the sacrifice, not the gift.

I’ve heard this story many times and I’ve known this application for years…..but for some reason, it only hit me hard today.

⁴¹Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. ⁴²But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny.

⁴³Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. ⁴⁴They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

When it comes to service to the Lord, it’s not how much you give to God, but rather how much you sacrifice FOR HIM that he cares about. In this story, you see how the rich come and give a whole lotta money to the church, but they gave out of their wealth, probably meaning that if they were put in the same situation with less wealth, they wouldn’t do the same thing.

The poor widow, on the otherhand, gave up her two copper coins which don’t even add up to a penny, yet this is the women that God said placed more money in the treasury than all the other offering givers.

When you look at the sacrifice that the wealthy gave up, it was nothing. They still had plenty of money to live comfortably, securely, and get what they want. The widow gave up her comfort, her security, they things she wanted for the sake of the church and Jesus said that she gave more to the church than any of the other people.

So the real question you have to ask yourself is, are you willing to give up everything you have for the church and for God? Your comforts, your security, your wants?

They are not without reward though. Matt 6:33, Luke 9:24, Ps 37:4, Gal 6:9, these all have the condition statement that if you do God’s will and His work for His sake, you will be given everything you need. Do you believe it?

Truly, do you believe that?