Trust the Pathmaker
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5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV
1. Trust the Pathmaker Fully
Proverbs 3:5 ESV - 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Exodus 34:6-7 ESV - 6 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Job 13:15 ESV - 15 Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
Luke 22:42 ESV - 42 saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
2 Timothy 2:13 ESV - 13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.
2. Trust the Pathmaker Only
Proverbs 3:5 ESV - 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Job 42:7 ESV - 7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
Matthew 16:23 ESV - 23 But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
1 Corinthians 1:23-24 ESV - 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Psalm 73:16-17 ESV - 16 But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, 17 until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.
Job 14:1 ESV - 14 “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.
3. Trust the Pathmaker Intimately
Proverbs 3:6 ESV - 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
John 10:14-15 ESV - 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Job 10:12 ESV - 12 You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.
Exodus 33:18-19 ESV - 18 Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” 19 And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
Hebrews 1:3 ESV - 3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Matthew 7:13-14 ESV - 13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Matthew 7:21 ESV - 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:24 ESV - 24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Exodus 34:7 ESV - 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Romans 3:23 ESV - 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Exodus 34:7 ESV - 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Romans 3:24 ESV - 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
John 14:15 ESV - 15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.