Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
Trusting something with your whole heart is already a big ask. But this verse adds a harder clause right after it: don't lean on your own understanding. In other words, the very tool you'd normally use to decide who's trustworthy is the thing you're told to set down.
That sounds risky, and it is. Most of us default to figuring things out ourselves — weighing evidence, running scenarios, staying in control of the outcome. There's nothing wrong with thinking clearly. But this verse names a specific trap: the moment your own reasoning becomes the final word on everything, you've quietly made yourself the highest authority in the room.
You don't have to abandon your mind to consider this. Just notice how much of your anxiety comes from trying to out-think every uncertainty alone, and ask whether that's actually been working.
If constantly trying to out-think every uncertainty on your own has left you exhausted, it might be worth exploring what it means to trust something beyond your own reasoning.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.