Going to the doctor’s office is usually pretty routine. They check the usual things, ask the usual questions, and most of the time you know what to expect. But this past week, the medical assistant checked my resting heart rate, which I don’t remember them doing before.
When she told me the number, I didn’t even know what it meant. I had to ask, “Is that good?” Thankfully, it was. But after I left, I kept thinking about that number and how amazing the human heart really is.
The average adult heart beats about 100,000 times a day. That is more than 36 million times a year. And the part that really got me is that I don’t manage any of that. I don’t wake up in the morning and remind my heart to start beating. I don’t have to keep track of the rhythm. I don’t have to tell it what to do next. It just keeps going.
That gave me a fresh way to think about Proverbs 3:5, which says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”
I’ll be honest, I have a tendency to worry. I like to know how things are going to work out. I like to have a plan and feel some sense of control. And when I don’t, it can be hard for me to release those things to God.
Maybe you know that feeling too. You trust God, but you still find yourself holding tightly to the thing you’re worried about.
But the same God who keeps my heart beating without me thinking about it is also present in the things I’m trying so hard to figure out. If God can be trusted with every heartbeat, then I know He can be trusted with every worry.