Today's RST is Jeremiah 17:5-10 and it says things that we're not usually used to hearing. Read it carefully--it's not God being harsh and capricious, it's God talking straight and laying things out as they truly are...we just can't always see things that way...but that doesn't make them not so. So what does this mean, what does it say to you?
This is what the LORD says:
"Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.
He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. He 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 a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."
You've been prayed for today...
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