With All Your Heart

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 274, With All Your Heart.

Proverbs 3, verses 5 and 6. Let this land:

"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."

With all your heart. Not a portion. Not whatever is left over after worry has already claimed the rest. All of it. That is what God is asking — and it is exactly what God deserves.

Because let's be honest for a moment. We trust God with the big crises, with the things that are clearly beyond us. But the daily decisions? Those we carry ourselves. We analyze, we calculate, we lie awake at night running through scenarios — and only when we are exhausted do we finally look up and say, "Lord, help me." And He helps, because He is full of mercy. But this text is not just inviting us to rescue. It is inviting us to rest.

"Do not lean on your own understanding." Notice — Scripture is not saying your mind is bad. Your mind is a gift from God. But it was made to serve faith, not to replace it. When anxiety takes the place of prayer, when calculation takes the place of trust, we are quietly putting ourselves in the place of God. And none of us have the shoulders for that. We were never made to carry the weight of directing our own lives.

"In all your ways acknowledge him." In all — not just in the spiritual moments, not just on Sundays, not just at the major crossroads. In all. Early Monday morning when the day already feels heavy. In the hard conversation you have been putting off for weeks. In the small decision that, deep down, is not so small. To acknowledge God is to pause — even for just a breath — and ask, "Lord, what do You want here?" Jesus lived that question. At every step, all the way to the cross, He was acknowledging the Father. And it was precisely because of that surrender that His path was straight — even when it passed straight through suffering.

And here is the promise. Not that the path will be smooth. Not that there will be no obstacles. The promise is that it will be made straight. That God takes responsibility for the direction — when we, genuinely and completely, take responsibility for the surrender. That is the exchange. It is not a fair trade — it is far better than fair. You open your hand, and God guides the way.

Today, do this before breakfast. Before you open your phone, before you check your messages, before the day swallows you whole — name one thing. One decision, one worry, one weight you are still carrying alone. And say it out loud, from the heart: "Lord, I acknowledge You in this. Make the path straight."

It does not need to be eloquent. It does not need to be long. It just needs to be real.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.