Don’t lean on your own understanding

Proverbs 3:5 Tells us to “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto your own understanding…”      Here is one of many stories that show what happens when people set aside their own “understanding” and reasoning abilities in favor of what they think a higher power has said:  Christian Homeschoolers Keep Girl as Sex Slave

If you can’t trust your own brain to come to reasonable conclusions, how can you trust that the idea of setting aside your reason and trusting god is a good idea?

Don’t lean on your own understanding