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Posted by David (Member # 1) on :

The Valley of the Lost Man (Jeremiah 5:1-6 )
Seek . . . , if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly. . . . (5:1 rv)

Have you found a man or woman of God on whom you can depend? If you have, you are blind. There is none! Don’t glory in man, for the best of men are but the best of men; bank on God alone. We are captivated by strong personalities and if they don’t leave us with Jesus Christ they take us to hell. You cannot find a man anywhere on this earth whom you can trust; the only thing you can trust in yourself and in other people is what Jesus Christ has been allowed to do. Many of us win to ourselves, not to Jesus Christ. “The people have no Bible but they have us.” It is true, but it is a perilous line. In preaching to the world, Jesus says, “Lift Me up.” You will never find a man according to God’s own heart until you become one yourself, then you can be trusted with the sight, for you won’t bank on him.

When you come across these truths you go through the panic of the last Judgment here, but then it won’t be in death or the world, the flesh or the devil to turn you. There is nothing to terrify the man who knows Jesus Christ, not only what He can do, but Himself.

From The Bible Training Course Monthly Journal
Vol. 5 January 1937 No. 10
Notes on Jeremiah

Chambers, O. (1999, c1936). Notes on Jeremiah (electronic ed.). London: Oswald Chambers Publication Association, Ltd.

Posted by MentorsRiddle (Member # 2108) on :

It is truly a sad statement to make by saying that there is no man (or woman) you can trust in this world. Not because it is untrue but because it is true.

The only person you can trust is Jesus Christ/God. I am glad that I can trust God, and that I have such a wonderful God.

But none the less it is still sad that there is none that you can trust fully with all yourself.

But we allways have the afterlife to look foward to. When we get to the kingdom of heaven it will be nice to know that there will be nothing but people you can trust.