0:00 The average person makes about thirty-five thousand decisions every single day.0:07 Yesterday, in our last time together, we spoke about finding peace in the morning light.0:14 Today, we look at what to do when that light reveals a path that feels uncertain, especially with thousands of choices waiting for us.0:26 Here is the reading from Proverbs, chapter three, verses five and six.0:32 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.0:46 Let’s sit with that for a moment.0:48 Especially that first part.0:51 "Lean not on your own understanding." That is a difficult instruction.0:57 It goes against every instinct we have.1:01 We are taught to be smart, to be prepared, to think our way out of problems.1:07 Our minds are powerful tools, and we spend our lives sharpening them.1:13 And that is a good thing.1:16 But this verse isn't asking us to be thoughtless.1:20 It's asking us to recognize the limits of our own thinking.1:25 That number from the beginning—thirty-five thousand decisions a day.1:31 We simply don't have enough information to get them all right.1:37 We can't see around the next corner.1:40 We don't know the hearts of the people we will interact with.1:45 Our own understanding, as good as it might be, is incomplete.1:51 It’s like trying to navigate a vast ocean using only a map of the shoreline.1:58 You can see where you are, but you can’t see the currents or the storms out in the deep.2:05 Here's what that means if you're looking at your day ahead.2:11 It means the pressure to have everything figured out is not on you.2:17 That meeting you're worried about, that conversation you've been putting off, that project with a dozen unknowns… your job isn't to predict every possible outcome.2:31 Your job is simply to do the next part.2:35 And that next part is the action.2:37 "In all your ways submit to him." The word here is sometimes translated as "acknowledge." It means to see Him, to recognize Him, to invite Him into the process.2:52 This is the practical part.2:54 When you look at your calendar, you can acknowledge Him.2:59 When you start your car, you can acknowledge Him.3:03 In the middle of a difficult email, you can pause, take a breath, and acknowledge Him.3:11 It’s an act of turning.3:13 A small, quiet pivot of the heart away from "I have to solve this" and toward "God, be with me in this." It's not about giving up.3:25 It's about taking on a partner who holds the full map.3:29 And that leads to the peace.3:32 The promise.3:33 "He will make your paths straight." Now, "straight" does not always mean easy.3:40 It doesn't mean there won't be hills to climb or rocks to step over.3:46 A straight path isn't always a paved highway.3:50 Sometimes a straight path is a clear trail cut through a dense, confusing forest.3:57 It gets you where you need to go directly, without the wasted energy of wrong turns and dead ends.4:06 It means your journey will have purpose.4:09 It means that even when the way is hard, you are not lost.4:15 Trusting this promise is a choice you make not just once, but over and over.4:21 In each of those thirty-five thousand daily decisions.4:26 You choose to lean on something bigger than your own limited view.4:32 You choose to believe that the one who made the path knows the way.4:38 The goal for today isn't to have a perfect map.4:42 The goal is to walk with the mapmaker.
