14/09/2024
THE DICHOTOMY OF TRUST
Trust can go in either of two ways in the life of a man one who trusts man and gets cursed and another who trusts God and gets blessed. God found it vital to explain trust and spell the consequences thereof through prophet Jeremiah in Jer 17:5-8:
5 Thus says the Lord:
A. “CURSED is the man who TRUSTS IN MAN and MAKES FLESH HIS STRENGTH, Whose HEART DEPARTS from the Lord. 6 For he shall be LIKE A SHRUB IN THE DESERT, And SHALL NOT SEE GOOD WHEN IT COMES, But shall inhabit the PARCHED PLACES IN THE WILDERNESS, In a SALT LAND which is NOT INHABITED.
B. 7 “BLESSED is the man who TRUSTS IN THE LORD, and whose HOPE is the Lord. 8 For he shall be LIKE A TREE PLANTED BY THE WATERS, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And WILL NOT FEAR when HEAT comes;
But its LEAF WILL BE GREEN,
And WILL NOT BE ANXIOUS in the year of DROUGHT, NOR WILL CEASE FROM YIELDING FRUIT."
