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NASB | Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Proverbs 3:5 Trust in and rely confidently on the LORD with all your heart And do not rely on your own insight or understanding. |
Bible Question (short): To seek God must we also seek ourselves? |
Question (full): My home group is currently doing a word study using the book by Selwyn Hughes - Every Day with Jesus - The Christian's True Identity. The author states that a Christian is a person with two identities - their natural and the new one given by God. Now the issue is, the author states that it is vital that we know something about ourselves. Any attempt to know more about God without desiring to know more about ourselves and our spiritual identity will result in an unbalanced type of christian living. The author also added that as an e.g. a pastor of a very successful church and appeared to have a deep knowledge of God but little about himself led him to commit a sin which ruined his ministry. Now, I do not agree that we should look at ourselves following my understanding of Paul's epistles in Romans and Galatians about seeking one's carnal mind. Proverbs 3:5-6 clearly states that we do not lean on our own understanding. 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him,and he will make your paths straight. Psalm 139:23-24 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. All my other home group members do not agree with me. Am I wrong? Thanks |