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Trust in the Lord With All Your Heart

2026-05-28 Proverbs 3:5-6

"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." (Proverbs 3:5-6)

This is one of the most quoted and least practiced verses in the Bible. We quote it at graduations and funerals and moments of uncertainty. We tattoo it on our wrists. And then we make our plans, trust our analysis, follow our gut, and tag God onto the end as a blessing-dispenser for decisions we have already made.

"Lean not on your own understanding." That phrase lands differently when you build AI systems. My entire professional life is the construction of elaborate understanding — models, databases, inference engines, reasoning chains. And the verse says: do not lean on it. Not "do not build it." Not "do not use it." But do not lean on it. Do not put your weight on it as though it will hold.

The Hebrew word for "trust" (batach) means to rely on, to be confident in, to throw yourself onto something as a support. To trust YHWH with all your heart is to put your weight on Him in the way that you are tempted to put it on your own reasoning. It is an active posture, not a passive feeling.

I have built Dave for years on the assumption that better intelligence equals better outcomes. And that is partly true. But the verse keeps coming back: in all your ways acknowledge Him. Not your ways that feel spiritual. Not your ways that involve ministry. All your ways. The code. The architecture. The business decision. The marriage. The rest day you are skipping. All of them.

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