Proverbs 3:5  Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.

One of the more hideous sources of doubt is an overreliance on our own insight. To be sure, the world encourages us to find true strength in our own wisdom born of knowledge and experience - even to boast of such things. But this only makes us self-righteous.

True wisdom is grounded in God's ordaining. And not all that the world puts forth as "wisdom" is so divinely rooted. Do our hearts trust God's wisdom, or do we rely only on our own insight?

St. Paul wrote to the Corinthians about this contest between God's wisdom and the world's. The world considered the death of Christ on the cross to be a sign of weakness. But on the cross, Christ in God's wisdom is the strength that sets us free from the judgment of sin, death, and evil. We are thus graced with God's strength through Christ in the midst of all trials and sufferings. We get to share God's wisdom that love and lifts up one and all who are low and despised and rejected in this world. Trust rooted in the cross grasps the power and the wisdom of God. And a heart filled with Christ's promise has a greater foundation than anything in the world.

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