Reading
SAA Notes
Verse 4 is one to ponder. We often blame God or someone else for loss in status, life, health, position. Verses 7-8 reiterate the message of Psalm 1. Write out verses 9 and 10 and place them on your fridge! The Glory of Worship and the Sabbath Day are other themes that challenge our attitudes.
SJA Notes
* God Above, please teach us more of who You are today, please remind us of our great need for You.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”
We are sinners, by nature and by intent broken and rotten.
You can’t get around this. You cannot have a big enough brain, a strong enough arm, a mighty enough spirit to fix this problem.
We are broken without the ability to fix ourselves.
We are sinners, as we see in Jeremiah, sinners in the hands of a God who is angry at sin.
What is the solution?
Here God gives us an answer that resonates throughout all scripture.
Where is our trust placed?
“Cursed is the man who trusts in man …”
We either place our trust in man and obtain curse, or
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,”
WHERE IS OUR TRUST?
That is the matter here, and helps us understand the solution to our heart-problem.
Only God can fix us. We cannot trust in any other thing.
Only God can save us, sustain us, build us an eternal home and bring us at last into the inheritance He has kept for us.
The question for us today, as we read this passage – Am I placing my trust for all of life (big things, little things, in-between things) in our Creator God?
* Father God,
Thank You for saving us Your people from curse.
Thank You that in You and You alone we find blessing.
Please help us to place our trust in You today, moment by moment, and each day onwards.
Amen.