"THE ANSWER!"

Jeremiah 17:5-10              (1599 Geneva Bible)
"5 Thus saith the Lord, CURSED be the man that TRUSTETH IN MAN, and maketh flesh his arm, and WITHDRAWETH HIS HEART FROM THE LORD.
6 For he shall be like the heath (shrub) in the wilderness, and shall not see when any good cometh, but shall inhabit the "parched" places in the wilderness, in a salt land, and NOT inhabited.
7 BLESSED be the MAN THAT TRUSTETH IN THE LORD, and whose HOPE the LORD is.
8 For he shall be as a tree that is planted by the water, which SPREADETH out her roots by the river, and shall NOT feel when the HEAT cometh, but her leaf shall be GREEN, and shall not care for the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding FRUIT.
9 The HEART IS DECEITFUL AND WICKED ABOVE ALL THINGS, who can know it?
10 I the Lord search the heart, and try the reins, even to GIVE TO EVERY MAN according to his ways, and ACCORDING TO THE FRUIT of his works."


When I see politicians claiming "THEY" have the answer to what ails our society, I am bumfuzzled!  No man is intelligent enough to have the answers to life's riddles, and just when we think we are gaining ground, the game changes!  The time for looking to MANKIND for a solution to the issues facing us today is strikingly similar to someone being diagnosed with lung cancer and continuing to smoke cigarettes.  We are only accelerating our demise!

Holy Scriptures are so very plain!  Man was created in the image of GOD (Genesis 1:27).  And what image is it that man was/is created in?  JESUS said in John 4:24 that GOD is a Spirit.  So if we are Spirits, why do we place so much emphasis on the natural?  Why do we continue to look for answers to our challenges, when "THE ANSWER" has already been provided us?

Verse 8 of Jeremiah 17 is one of the most under read verses in the Bible. For us to "spread out our roots by the river", we must stay in the WORD OF GOD daily.  We can not expect to produce "Green Leaves" during a drought if we do not have a great root system. The drought is near and if we want to continue to produce fruit, we MUST trust in THE LORD!

It has been said many times when discussing race relations, "We don't have a SKIN problem, we have a SIN problem"!  Folks, for us to recognize "THE ANSWER" to our problems, we must first identify the problem!  We don't have an economic crisis.  We don't have a social problem.  We don't have a problem that our military can get us out of. The problem we have is we have denied the ONE in whose image we were created!  "THE ANSWER" is not trusting in man, and withdrawing our hearts from GOD (Jeremiah 17:5)!  "THE ANSWER" is is trusting in the LORD!!!