Lean Not Unto Your Own Understanding

When we view our lives in light of the Bible, we often interpret God’s Word as aligning with what we believe is the right plan of action for our lives. Unfortunately, when the circumstances don’t go as we had hoped or planned, we may ask why and question whether God truly loves and cares for us.

 

A revelation about how we mix our earthly understanding of God’s Word with that of spiritual understanding is what led author Andrea Williams to study and write the book in your hands, Lean Not Unto Your Own Understanding…Rightly Dividing God’s Word.

 

Andrea witness from personal experience how our interpretations of the Bible can conflict with what is truly God’s intention for our lives, making us rely more on ourselves than the Father in heaven who loves us.

 

Combined with an attitude of prayer, Andrea shows readers that several aspects of our lives (trust, forgiveness, who we listen to for understanding) can be shaped by our fleshy, sinful nature instead of with spiritual understanding from God.

 

Lean Not Unto Your Own Understanding…Rightly Dividing God’s Word is to not only be helpful to non-believers and those new in the faith but also to seasoned believers in need of a reminder of trusting God instead of ourselves for the outcomes of our lives.

 

The hope is that readers will feel compelled more than ever to dive into the Bible to help establish and/or strengthen their relationship with God. For if we “rightly divide” God’s Word, that means we are handling it appropriately to where God can tell us how best to cope and move forward in the situations of life.

 

If we remember that God is for us and not against us, trusting His way can become our only course of action.