ᴄᴜʀsᴇᴅ ɪs ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴀɴ ᴡʜᴏ ᴛʀᴜsᴛs ɪɴ ᴍᴀɴ

Jer 17:5: "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD."


Cursed be the man that makes his fellow mortal his strength and confidence. If we depend on a person and that person is facing challenges, we will also be affected. Whatever shakes the person will shake us. However, nothing can shake the Almighty God. Since God cannot be shaken by any challenges, nothing should shake those who depend on Him. The challenges we face do not worry or move God because He has the answer to all our troubles. Instead of worrying about what does not worry God, we should find out from the scriptures what God said about our challenges, go to Him in prayer, make our requests using His written words, and believe that we have received them.


We should place our expectations on God's words for our lives and needs, not on what others or situations say. If we place our hope in what God said in the scriptures, we should go to Him in prayer to make requests. God's words reflect His thoughts or plans for us, not what anyone else thinks. As we think and ponder on what God said, our words and actions will reflect those beliefs.


Those who depart from the LORD by stopping seeking, pursuing, obeying, and loving Him and start placing their hope and confidence in humans will be put to shame. The LORD must hold the central place in our hearts and be the object of our love for us to please Him and attract His favour. Until the LORD owns us completely, He is not pleased. Our primary pursuit in life should be to completely devote ourselves to the LORD. We must love and follow the LORD through faith to be able to walk perfectly with Him and fulfil our destinies in Christ. Those who stop following the LORD will be like a name written in the dust and not in gold because they have abandoned the LORD, the spring of living water.

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