Thought for the Lord’s Day

Beware the heart of darkness.

 

When the people of God come to worship, our vision and our trust must be singular. God and God alone is to be the object of our trust. Too often we live and worship with other options on the table. We say, sing, and pray that God is all that matters, but in the hidden corners of our heart we value, trust, and hope in something other than God. We trust in God to make our circumstances what we want them to be. But this is not trust, it is doubt. We trust in God to make other people appreciate us. But this is not trust, it is idolatry.

 

Jesus knew that the heart of man is not to be trusted. May we have the courage to be singular in our vision and worship as Jesus did. May we not entrust ourselves to man or the things man desires. Rather may we entrust ourselves to the One who judges and rules justly. If Christ would not entrust himself to man, why should we? For the heart of man is the heart of darkness.

 

“Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name. But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. He did not need man’s testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.” John 2:23-25

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