Trust in the Lord

Proverbs 3:5-6 "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."

I was reading through Proverbs 3 today, and I wanted to share some of the commentary that I read on these two verses:

"Trusting in the the Lord is like a child-like, unwavering confidence in our Father's well-proved wisdom, faithfulness, and love. But our trust must not only be entire: it must be exclusive. No other confidence, no confidence in the flesh, can consist with it. Man with all his pride feels that he wants something to lean to. As a fallen being, he naturally leans to himself, to his own foolish notions and false fancies. Human power is his idol. His understanding is his God.

Self-dependence is folly, rebellion, ruin. The great folly of man in trials is leaning to or upon his own understanding and counsels.

Take one step at a time, every step under Divine warrant and direction. It is nothing less than self-idolatry to conceive that we can carry on even the ordinary matters of the day without his counsel. He loves to be consulted. Therefore take all thy difficulties to be resolved by him. Be in the habit of going to him in the first place --- before self-will, self-pleasing, self-wisdom, human friends, convenience, expediency. Before any of these have been consulted go to God at once. Consider no circumstances too clear to need his direction. No step well prayed over will bring ultimate regret."