Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
"Do not lean on your own understanding" is a hard sell in a culture that tells you to trust your gut, follow your research, figure it out yourself. And this verse isn't anti-thinking — it's naming something more specific: the limit of what your own head can actually see. You don't know how next year turns out. Nobody does. Leaning your whole weight on your own read of the situation is leaning on something that was never built to hold it.
The promise attached to this isn't that everything will make sense. It's that the path gets made straight — not by you working harder to see further, but by trusting someone whose view isn't limited the way yours is.
That's a real ask, not a small one. It doesn't mean stop thinking. It means holding your own certainty a little more loosely, and wondering whether there's a wiser vantage point than your own.
If you're tired of carrying every decision on your own reasoning alone, it might be worth exploring what it would look like to trust a wisdom beyond your own.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.