“Cursed Is The One

Who Trusts In Man”

This is what the LORD says:

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the LORD. That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

“I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”

Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools

Jeremiah 17:5-11

We are gullible and we believe most anything our heart tells us. Unfortunately, that is the nature of sin. We have an almost unbelievable problem of self-deception. We can justify just about any bad action we take because of our heart. All of us have a basic problem of being honest with ourselves.

The only way to survive in a world of deception

is by trusting the One who will never deceive us.

Our Daily Bread – February 2011