The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Proverbs 3:5-8, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
8 It will be healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.”

What Solomon encourages us to do is not always easy. There are
thousands of things that lie well outside our ability to achieve. Learning
what we do not know and what we cannot achieve is a good first step.
That’s why our verses above counsel us to “Trust in the LORD.”

We live in a day where we’re led to believe we can do anything! In a
sense, such belief guards us from sheer laziness. Yet, the clear truth is
that there are hundreds of things we simply cannot do, no matter how
gifted we think we are or how many degrees we have attached to our
name! Solomon’s directive is: “Trust in the LORD…”

Sometimes the desires of our hearts excite us so that we tend to
believe that “all things belong to you” (1 Cor. 3:21). Still, a careful
examination of the entirety of that passage reads: “So then let no one
boast in men. For all things belong to you, whether Paul or Apollos or
Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come;
all things belong to you, and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to
God.” Thus, we become but a small peg in the entire enterprise.

Timing, too, is involved. “Things to come” is promised, but not always an exact time. All things are in God’s timing. Solomon said, “There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven– a time to give birth and a time to die; a time to plant and a
time to uproot what is planted” (Eccl. 3:1-2).

The personal application, “I have patience; and I want it now!” always rules out the will of the LORD. If it involves other individuals, it may
rule them out as well. “Let patience have her perfect work…” In time,
we may learn that what the LORD gives is always superior to what we
we wanted. “He has done all things well…” (Mk. 7:37).

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom