With All your Heart

Call your heart and do not lean on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge. Him and He will make straight your paths be not wise in your own eyes fear the lord and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones honor the Lord with your wealth and with your first fruits of all your projects. Then your barns will be filled with plenty in your vast will be bursting with wine. My son do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof for Lord reproves him whom he loves as a father and his son as a father the son in whom he Delights the grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of Our Lord will stand forever.

Have you ever played a a board game? And someone is in charge of describing the directions of this board game in this board game is complex. This board game is is complicated as many factors and facets of the board game. very difficult

Well the other day I play for the first time spike ball. And the person it who is teaching me said that this has been explained as one of the easiest games to explain the rules the one of the hardest to master. And so too when you come to Proverbs, it is very much the same way. A lot of Proverbs are very easy to explain. But yet very hard to master takes a lifetime to master them.

Today we look at one of the most. best known proverbs but yet one that is simple to explain yet very hard to master. And we look that we see their Christian avoids detours and doctors by their dependents and devotion in the Lord Krishna voice detours and doctors by dependence and devotion in the Lord. I need to say at the outset that when you read Proverbs, it is very much. There's there's no Prosperity Gospel out of proverbs. There's no one facet that you just take and apply this to your life and you will see great success. It talks about outcomes that you have but that is not normally the case. We're not every time the case your general principles to a be applied to your life. But sometime the Wicked Man live. A long life and the righteous man dies a young death.

So again, this teaches us and gives us outcomes, but we're to walk with wisdom to apply these to our lives not to see immediate results in her life. But rather walking diligently and Faithfully to what God has commanded us to do. So the first thing that a Christian avoids detours by their dependents in Lord, we see this isn't verses 5 and 6. Can we speak at dependents dependent means to be Reliant the state of relying or needing someone or something for a door support? We think of dependent on a tax form. When we think of the dependent children living in our house their Reliance on us and our income to be able to survive. It would not have a roof over their head. That will not have food in their bellies. Maybe you think of dependence and in this millennial generation. With their phones, it's almost like they have an umbilical cord connected to the phone to their own life. We have little round college students and we're forever seeing them walk and it's funny to see them walk. It may be a couple walking but they're looking at their phones or taking the dog out for a stroll in their connected to their phones or dependent on this phone or maybe a person who is dependent on drugs.

They rely on it for their addiction for their habits. This is what were meant to be where did pendant be dependent on the Lord? So, how are we to be dependent on the Lord three aspects where to be entirely dependent exclusively dependent and extensively dependent 22 for the sake of being honest. Those three came up in a commentary was reading from Jim newheiser opening the Proverbs. I'm not copying what he said. I just stole the three E's. I tried to rework it to that. Sometimes you just read something and you can't get it out of your head. So Go to be dependent entirely with your heart. We should be paid depending on the Lord and Charlie would our hearts since Owen verse 5 trust in the Lord with all your hearts and even inverse 6A in all your ways.

The author does not explain trust in the Lord with a small portion of your heart trust in the Lord with half of your life. Trust in the Lord when you have nothing else to trust in. The partially trust is a non sequitur to trust in the Lord with all your heart means all you cannot have hardly trust in something. It ceases then to be Trust. This Hebrew word to trust means basically to throw oneself on the face to lie down.

to trust entirely someone comes and not just handing them your wallet. Figure Social Security number your bank account numbers every type of secret information. You want to have you give it all to them? You trust them entirely with your life.

Charles Spurgeon uses this illustration of a trust that when you go to the bank and you deposit money. You deposit money and you don't walk back 30 minutes later and say you still have my money. I'm really worried that you spend that you trust them with your money. You don't need to be anxious about what you're doing because you do actually trust them.

So too weird to deposit our souls to Christ committing them to him. Hazard faithful creator

Where's Paul says I know him in whom I have believed and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted until that day.

We forever need to be praying for wisdom and direction in all are facets of her life.

We say we trust God with our family. But do we trust him with all aspects of our family?

Do we worry enter anxious over some parts of our life because we do not trust him with all of our parts of our life. Did you be entirely dependent on God?

So we should be entirely dependent but also exclusively dependent we should be dependent on the Lord exclusively with their mind. We see this in the second half of her speed do not five do not lean on your own understanding and also be not wise in your own eyes for 7. What is very similar to the first one, but maybe from a different angle? The first point is to trust with God and trust the Lord entirely means that we have no other backups. But to trust in God exclusively means you go to no other source.

Companies have exclusive deals with other companies to Sauk only a certain type of product.

Any altar of Proverbs points out that we're not to lie on her own understanding. We're not to go to another source for understanding but rather to God.

to be dependent on to lean on

not to lean on your own understanding like a man leaning on a shovel is dependent on the prop to continue to support him.

But we do not lean on ourselves to support us to give us understanding and do you quick reasons why we should not lean on our own understanding firstly we are finite. Our brains are limited in time scope.

You might be the smartest person in the room.

But your brain has a limit. and I'll bounce

you cannot memorize a whole encyclopedia.

You can maybe even remember what you had for breakfast.

But we are fine. We are limited in our scoop. So we're not to lean on our own understanding because we are limited.

But also we're not to lean on your own understanding because we are also following.

Even if we had a perfect mind in a perfect brain to be able to remember a certain number things.

because of our fallen nature arson benzo desires it warps on mines of thoughts

Show me don't lean on our own understanding because we are in fact finite and Fallen.

And everything we understand is Tainted with those two things in one some minor way.

But if we're to trust in the Lord with all our heart, we understand that the Lord is not finite. The Lord is not falling.

Some of you might know Frank Sinatra's favorite tune. I Did It My Way? And is generally how a lot of people live their lives.

I don't care what happens what happens in the outcome in the end. As long as I can claim and say that they did it their way.

Frank Sinatra same set the end is near and I face my final curtain. My friend, I'll say it's clear. I'll State my case for which I am certain. I live the life is full. I traveled each and every Highway and More Much More Than This I Did It My Way?

Things later for what is a man? What has he got if not himself then he has not. Just say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels. The record shows I take took the blows into the my way. How often do we lean on our own understanding? To get us through life.

How often do we turn to Google to answer all our problems rather than to God's word? How long how often do we turn to our own experience our own perspective of life?

To give us understanding.

How often do we follow her heart?

But how foolish it is to follow him falling in finite heart?

We are to trust in the Lord with all our hearts and Minds. But however, we do it in a mediocre Manor picking and choosing.

Then we are to be depending on the Lord entirely with their heart exclusively with their minds and extensively with her hands. We should be dependent on the Lord extensively with their hands in all your ways acknowledge him. He's the author says in first 6. A wise person seeks not only to be wise mentally and emotionally the wisdom does not stop at the bounds of reflection. But take steps into action with some does not stop at the bounds of reflection, but take step into action wise person does not seek to have God instruct him in some aspects of his life, but in all aspects of his life. But only to instruct him in all aspects of his life but to follow through and actually do them. To carry through with what he believes in his heart and his head.

Do you have it in the mundane activities of apply shaped on the dependence of the Lord?

Again, this is where the Proverbs are so true. How often it is it's so easy to explain. To trust in the Lord with all your heart. But actually do this. Got a light that reflects that trust reflects that dependence. In heart in your head in your hands. To carry it through.

How often it is that we don't trust the Lord in all aspects of her life. When you have kids and you clean the car you clean the house you often find in the smallest and the tiniest crack the the food and crumbs you've left behind. But a wise man who seeks to follow in The Obedience of the Lord to have the word be a lamp to his path.

6 you have that light shining all aspects of his life.

To apply the word to every single facet of his life. We should seek not only to be hearers of God's word, but doers of God's word.

I think this is a great. Demise somewhat in the reformed faith. Do you think of many reformed believers? And they're great thinking.

And often they don't actually put that into action. We believe the Great Commission, but do we actually do the Great Commission carry it out. What's a husband's we believe that we are to love your wives as Christ loved the church, but when we replaced in a sacrificial moment, and we should seek to lay our lives down in the mundane. Do we actually carry through and do it?

How often it is that there's two options before you empty the dishwasher or pretend you didn't see it. to do something sacrificial For to do something selfish.

And we should seek to apply to do the word of God to carry it out. Not just to know it in our heads not just to know it in our hearts but to do it with her hands in all your ways acknowledge Him.

Going to be dependent on God's a proverb says that you would avoid detours dependence of God with our hard head in hands avoid detours. That he will make your path straight.

in a novel by the allegory by John Bunyan the Pilgrims Progress Christian and hopeful are walking along a path in this type is is Rocky it's bearable, but it's Rocky. But I come to a fence and not on the other side of the fence is a grassy meadow the look smooth and calm to walk on. And it appears that the pack all know the rocky side of the path into the meadow on the other side of the past go side by side. And there's a style that crosses over this fence this wooden ladder that they climb over and Christian Tales. Hopeful that why don't we just climb over? Climb over on the other side will walk on this path is not going to be as wearisome on our feet. We will climb over and walking is the past start to diverge then we'll net. The Christian and hopeful climb over the fence.

What seemed right in their own mind and their own understanding?

But I started to separate they got lost from the right path. And ended up in the castle of despair. Now often it is the case that we seek. To go our own way. things to do the easier thing

Do we avoid these detours that we don't need to take in our life?

So dependent Savoy's detours.

And Devotion to the Lord avoids doctors.

Reversed 7 fear the lord and turn away from evil.

to fear the lord we here at this and joke one that there was a man in artists whose name was Joe. The man was blameless and upright one who fear God and turned away from evil. Joke to be seem to be a man. good Proverbs, 3:7 speaks of

we see throughout the Bible that people feared the Lord. When an angel the Lord would appear they seem terrified fearful.

Open this beer would come it's a fear of death not because of fear of death is still but when confronted with the Holiness of God, they realize the one that God is the one who gives life.

Territory comes not from death, but God himself, you're not fearful of death are fearful of God in fear is is reverence to him who drives us to turn away from evil.

We should read this that they command is not just to turn away from evil. But when we fear the lord, then we will turn away from evil.

When we are confronted with the Holiness of God you explain like Isaiah. I am undone. My lips are in clean. the authority and power of the Lourdes you fall on your face and realize there is no other God like him.

No, man can stand before him claiming Perfection besides Christ, and we desperately depraved and unable to save ourselves from this Miry pit of Destruction. We cannot turn from Evil. We do not see we are in fact evil. We see Christ has made a way for us to commune with God through his death on the cross. We need only to believe in him to confess our sins. through faith and believe in him

The fear of the Lord it doesn't take long. I think 2 to look at creation. And see God's Splendor in might. But it doesn't take long to then look closer. And see how fearful we should be of God because of his reverence.

To look at the Sun and to think how marvelous it is that it provides light.

but then to think and consider that it's only good to us because of where we are. If we were much closer to that.

We would be on fire we would melt. This thing Bernie Williams of light-years away. Seeks to give us warmth during the day.

Well, I've heard it explained. To look at a picture of a hurricane from a satellite. still picture

to see how large a spanset pit covers

looks still and quiet. But to be in the eye of the hurricane. To be close to that. You would not be in the light and all but you would be trembling. Holding on to your life without whatever you have.

strong winds blowing the rain pouring down intro to We Fear the Lord with great reverence trusting in Him. But also with great Terror knowing his might in his power.

And we see this.

Not to be wise in your own eyes. but to fear the lord

so when we read the Bible.

We did the destruction and despair the comes through soon.

when we read through the Ten Commandments do we sit in wonder?

Consider how much we have fallen short?

do we hear them and take them off are a list and Understand that we've done pretty well.

Or do we hate sin? Do we hate Center alives? Not because it's the Senate self.

But the consequence of sin found with the Holiness of God.

the power of His might to fear Him

in the outcome of the sphere to turn away from evil.

To see the sin in our lives. how to stop

And to turn 180 and run the other way.

hating sin

hating sin in our lives

looking unto Christ. And seeing the same as what place them on the cross.

Looking unto Christ for forgiveness of our sin. Been driven to him.

free outcome of this Having Devotion to God Devotion to Lord.

Is a hole in Sabine? to avoid doctors

first aid it will be healing to your flesh. Is word healing means to be sewn together like a rip in a pair of pants?

Or maybe stitches in Cut skin?

The we are broken, but this fear of the Lord.

Would be appealing to us.

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Would he lie request?

so sew in Proverbs 4:22 for they are life to those who find them and healing to all their flesh.

That the word flash here can can mean Naval the center. Like an umbilical cord going into your stomach? Or maybe on a modern-day term would be your core your core strength. It will be healing not just on the surface but something deeper.

It will not only be healing to your flesh, but also would be a refreshment to your bones.

Four Freshmen You mean an irrigation system? Like a plant in a drought does irrigation system feeds water to it.

or medicine how often we are sick and this medicine comes and makes us will

maybe Annie. Have you have ran? And you're running and you come up now to a drink table. You're at your parts. Jerk. You're Desiring some thirst.

And then on this table is a nice cup of cold water. is perspiring And it touches your tongue.

You feel invigorated you feel life again.

Is what the fear of the Lord does brings healing to are fresh retraction to Arbonne. medicine

bones are not made to be dry. Bones are meant to be moist to be. Dry Bones means death

Joe began

says the pedals are full of milk in the mirror of his bones or moist. Sign of life but not just life but life to the full.

See this flashing Boons echoed in Genesis. When Adam saw you leave and set it last this is bone of my bones and Flesh of My Flesh.

entirety the spoons and I try but they come alive again like the image of the Valley of the dry bones with Ezekiel. being refreshed irrigation system plugging in Life coming back This is the fear of the Lord.

As we begin to age our flesh. I seen better days. in our bones begin to ache

this in life is irreversible. Did those who fear the lord?

Will find their soul lifted in their body. filled with life again

But we are to be devoted to the Lord. And his Devotion to Lord through the fear to turn away from evil. avoids doctors So two questions that are interconnected is your shape life shaped by the fear of the Lord.

And is your life shaped by constant repentance in fleeing from sin?

Again, I think these are simple questions but hard to master. Constantly, Daddy and Daya.

In the him all the way to my savior leads me. What have I to ask beside? Can I doubt his faithful Mercies? Who's who life has been my guide Heavenly peace Divine is Comfort your by faith in him to dwell for I know whatever Follow Me Jesus. All things well. All of my savior leads me tears me. He's winding path. I tread gives me strength for every trial and feeds me with the living bread.

All the way my savior leads me all the fullness of his love peace resting me is promise in my father's house above.

Perfect rest in me as promised.

To trust in the Lord with all your heart.

Lean not on your own understanding. Is an easy thing to say? Generally easy to explain that a hard thing to master.

We should be dependent on the Lord. We should be devoted to Lord and in so doing we shall avoid detours in life and also the doctor's Brussels. Let us go to the Lord in prayer.

Oh gracious Heavenly Father. We thank you though. You have given us your word to help us to comfort us to reprove us to exhort us. The train Asim all righteousness for your namesake.

We pray Lord that we would. Take this to Heart. Lord we would be more dependant to you. On you we would be more devoted to you.

Or give us your spirit. To help us to carry these things out in our day-to-day life remind us of how we fall short. Not that we met.

Worry or be anxious about how we're falling short, but that we may turn to you. Knowing that you are able to use those moments For Your Glory we pray that you would continue to make us more like your son. Or give us the fear of you to see your aunt Ginger Wonder. It also your grace and love towards us and it's not take that for granted and it's Jesus Christ. We pray amen.