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Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6, ESV
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What this means, and why it matters to a father

This is one of the most memorized verses in the Bible, and it is easy to pass over how demanding it actually is. 'Do not lean on your own understanding' is not asking you to be irrational. It is targeting something more specific: the man who figures everything out by himself, who trusts his own read of a situation, who plans without prayer and decides without counsel.

There is more to this one. The full context — the events behind the words, what the author was living through, and how it applies to the specific situations of fatherhood — is in the app under Deeper Understanding.

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