A new month feels like a fresh page—new plans, new hopes, maybe even some new worries. Proverbs 3:6 reminds us that God is not just vaguely interested in our lives; He wants to be welcomed into every path, every decision, every hidden place of the heart. This verse is a gentle command and a fierce promise rolled into one: if we refuse to live as our own masters and instead keep turning toward Him, He Himself will step in and direct the way we should go.

He Wants All of Your Ways, Not Just Your “Spiritual” Ones

Proverbs 3:6 does not say, “In your religious life acknowledge Him,” but “in all your ways.” That means your workday, your dating life or marriage, the way you parent, the way you scroll your phone, how you handle money, and how you speak when you’re tired. God is not asking for weekend custody; He is claiming full ownership. Romans 12 talks about presenting our bodies as “living sacrifices,” our whole selves laid on the altar, so that we are “not conformed to this world” but “transformed by the renewing of our mind” (Romans 12:1–2). Acknowledging Him in all our ways is simply living out that surrendered, transformed life in real time.

Imagine what it would look like if every part of your schedule today passed under His loving gaze first. Before answering an email, you whisper, “Lord, how should I respond?” Before that purchase, “Lord, is this wise?” Before that conversation, “Lord, help me speak with grace.” This isn’t stiff or religious; it’s relational. It’s how people who actually believe Jesus is Lord live: not by adding a “Christian” label to their plans, but by inviting Him to write, edit, and—sometimes—completely rewrite those plans.

Letting Him Straighten What You Cannot Untangle

Here is the promise straight from the text: “in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:6). Straight paths do not mean easy paths; they mean directed, purposeful, God-designed paths. David prayed, “Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths” (Psalm 25:4), because he knew that left to himself he would wander. Deep down, we know it too. We feel it every time we second-guess a decision, lie awake at night, or replay conversations wondering if we messed everything up.

There are places in your life right now that feel like a tangle of “what ifs” and “I don’t knows.” You don’t need a detailed map; you need a faithful Guide. To acknowledge Him is to stop pretending you’re the one holding the compass. It is to say, “Lord, You see what I don’t. You know what I can’t.” Scripture reminds us, “For we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7). When you cannot see ten steps ahead, you can still take the next step in obedience, trusting that as you bow your will to His, He will quietly, steadily, straighten the path beneath your feet.

Living Today with a Yielded “Yes”

Acknowledging God in all your ways is less about dramatic moments and more about a quiet, steady “yes” throughout the day. James rebukes the kind of planning that says, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city…,” then adds, “Instead, you ought to say, ‘If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that’” (James 4:15). That’s what a yielded heart sounds like: “If the Lord is willing.” It does not kill initiative; it purifies it. It doesn’t excuse passivity; it redirects our energy under His authority.

So what would it look like to live today with that posture? Before you rush into your to-do list, pause and hand Him the whole day: your calendar, your expectations, your interruptions. When anxiety spikes, consciously turn it into a fresh acknowledgment: “Lord, this situation belongs to You. Lead me.” When an unexpected opportunity appears, instead of grabbing or refusing it on impulse, ask, “Is this one of the ‘paths’ You are making straight for me?” Slowly, that humble, ongoing “yes” will become your new reflex—and you will find yourself, sometimes almost without noticing, walking straighter paths than you ever could have charted alone.

Lord, thank You for caring enough to direct my steps. Today, teach me to acknowledge You in all my ways and to follow wherever You lead. Help me act in obedience to Your voice, trusting You to make my paths straight.

It is my experience that the totality of our Christian lives-our entire attitude as persons-must be towards the worship of God! If you do not know the presence of God in your office, your factory, your home-then God is not in the church you attend, either! I became a Christian when I was a young man working in a tire factory in Akron, Ohio. I remember my work there-but I remember my worship there, too! I had plenty of worshipful tears in my eyes. No one ever asked me about them, but I would not have hesitated to explain them. You can learn to use certain skills until they are automatic. I became so skillful that I could do my work and then I could worship God even while my hands were busy. If the love of God is in us and the Spirit of God is breathing praise within us, all the musical instruments in heaven are suddenly playing in full support! Even our thoughts become a sanctuary in which God can dwell.

I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in His word do I hope. My soul looketh for the Lord, more than watchmen look for the morning; yea, more than watchmen for the morning. - Psalm 130:5-6

This is what I call the permanent, peaceful attitude of the spirit that has tasted the sweet consciousness of forgiving love, a continual dependence upon God.

Like a man that has just recovered from some illness, but still leans upon the hand, and feels his need of seeing the face, of that kindly physician that had helped him through, there will be still, and always, the necessity for the continual application of that pardoning love. But they that have tasted that the Lord is gracious can sit very quietly at His feet and trust themselves to His kindly dealings, resting their souls upon His strong word, and looking for the fuller communication of light from Himself. A beautiful picture of a tranquil, continuous, ever-rewarded, and ever-fresh waiting upon Him, and reliance upon His mercy.

"More than they that watch for the morning." That is beautiful! The consciousness of sin was the dark night. The coming of His forgiving love flushed all the eastern heaven with diffused brightness that grew into the perfect day. And so the man waits quietly for the dawn, and his whole soul is one absorbing desire that God may dwell with him, and brighten and gladden him.

The thundery side of the sky makes all the more tender the sapphire blue of the other side: - "But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared." No man ever comes to that confidence that has not sprung to it, as it were, by a rebound from the other thought. It needs, first of all, that the heart should have tremblingly entertained the contrary by hypothesis, in order that the heart should spring into the relief and the gladness of the counter truth. It must first have felt the shudder of the thought, " If Thou, Lord, shouldst," in order to come to the gladness of the thought, " But there is forgiveness with Thee! "

Do you know what Bethesda means? " House of Mercy"; perhaps so named to commemorate some benefactor that had built the portico; more probably to suggest to the poor sick creatures a gleam of hope from the thought that God had love and care for them. There seemed a sharp contradiction between the condition of the people and the name. But we are gathered, as they were, in the House of Mercy. That is to say, though we have all departed from the right way, God’s love encompasses us still, and this earth, seamed and stained as it has been by man’s sin, is, notwithstanding, the chosen field in which He will manifest the tenderness of His compassion and the love of His heart. If any of you ever saw St. Peter’s in Rome, you will remember the great sweeping colonnades which extend from its front and reach out their arms as though they would embrace the city and the world; and in the midst there springs and sparkles a pure fountain. So God’s love compasses all us sick folk, and in the midst there rises the fountain which will heal. We are in the House of Mercy. The world is gathered round the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness. It is not intermittent, but evermore His blood avails for us. It is not exhausted by one cure, or by two or three; but there is enough for each and enough for all; enough for thee and me and all our fellows. Christ is coming to you by my poor unworthy words, and saying, " Wilt thou be made whole? " Take Christ for your Healer, for your healing, for your health.