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It's been a long, deep week so I think we'll go with a Friday quick hit.

Proverbs 3:5 (ESV) is an oft-quoted passage of Scripture: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding."  It's usually quoted at someone when they're either in the midst of a problem or when they're facing a situation that seems impossible to conquer. 

It's so hard to just to have faith like a child and not try to figure things out in our own logic.  However, there is a real freedom when you get to the point that you realize God rarely works in the manner we think He is going to work.  Our understanding is based on a field of human logic and boundaries that we as humans set upon situations.  The Apostle Paul even mocks the weakness of human understanding in Romans 3:5 (ESV) when he's talking of people wanting to logically conclude God is unrighteous in bringing wrath on us and says "I speak in a human way."  Paul's flat out saying that we are in capable of understanding the whole of God.  It's a wonderful mystery.

I know in my own life I've found that when I just trust in God the solutions arrive in ways I never would have expected them to arrive.  When that happens, it strengthens my faith in the Lord and isn't that the point of all we do?  The simple act of trusting increases trust in the Lord when He provides us what we need!