Cursed and Blessed

Jeremiah 17:1-18

Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool, inscribed with a flint point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.

Through your own fault, you will lose the inheritance I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for you have kindled my anger, and it will burn forever.

Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord.

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.

Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise. They keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the Lord? Let it now be fulfilled!” I have not run away from being your shepherd; you know I have not desired the day of despair. What passes my lips is open before you.

Why?

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? Yes, if one who does not know the Lord, whose heart is full of deceitful above all.

Jeremiah did not fear and escape like others, but he asked the Lord to save him and let the word of the Lord be fulfilled in him. The Lord is his shepherd.

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兩種依靠

依靠人的血肉膀臂，好像扎根不深的杜松，不見福樂來到。不按正道得財的，好像鷓鴣菢不是自己下的蛋，最後都是別人的。

倚靠耶和華、以耶和華為可靠的，那人有福了：不是樹自己有辦法，而是扎根扎對地方。

壇角：祭物屬於神的不可追殺。人以為抓住壇腳就可以了，

我們的聖所是否在天上的，太初就有了，不是地上的聖殿。

耶利米服事有些灰心，因為所傳的還沒有應驗。神要他從守安息日開始。人是否放心依靠神?

詭詐的相反就是單純。不要想太多，不要太在意！

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How?

The Lord is my shepherd, I belong to the Lord no matter what happens before me. I know the Lord is leading my way forward.