Kindred,

When all you know is your own understanding, how then do you "lean not to your own understanding"?  

The operative word is yet.  

Yet to understand.  

Yet to reach enlightenment.

Yet to know.   

The journey is in the seeking, the asking and the discovery the path of understanding the Lord;

in the seeking, the asking and the discovery of being enlightened by the Holy Spirit;

and in the seeking, the asking and the discovery to know the path of salvation. 

It is an experience of discoveries through different stages of life; therefore, not instantaneous epiphanies and not by osmosis. 

In other words, it takes a curious mind, an empathic heart and a holy spirit to work towards a better understanding (of the Lord and Holy Spirit) that makes receiving epiphanies possible.