"5 Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.
6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
7 "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.
8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit."
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and DESPERATELY SICK; WHO CAN "UNDERSTAND" IT"?
10 "I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
GOD built mankind with a desire to understand WHY, a desire to "UNDERSTAND". We tend to want to explain things to make things more palatable, or acceptable. Tragedies sometimes happen with no warning nor explanation why? The recent shooting in a southern city was admittedly perpetrated by someone who used "race" as motivation for his deeds. But his actions were brought about by EVILNESS, pure and simple!
The enemy seeks "only to steal, kill and destroy" (John 10:10)! When he shows himself in such devastating ways, unless we are looking for him, we can't explain why things happened the way they happened. The Bible is very clear, mankind is DESPERATELY SICK; WHO CAN "UNDERSTAND" the things that we do? We cannot explain nor "UNDERSTAND" what the enemy is trying to accomplish because John 8:44 says "he was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the TRUTH, because there is no TRUTH in him".
We "UNDERSTAND" what WE KNOW! Yet most of us don't know THE TRUTH (John 14:6) nor do we recognize the enemy when he manifests himself. We can't seem to identify his evilness because we aren't looking for him! JESUS said in Mark 7:21-22 "For from within, OUT OF THE HEART OF MAN, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, MURDER, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness." JESUS could identify the enemy, for HE knew THE FATHER! HIS relationship with THE FATHER was such that whenever the enemy appeared JESUS knew he was there!
My prayer is that I will continue to grow in HIM to where I recognize, and "UNDERSTAND", when evil appears it is from the evil one! When things are hard to understand it could be the great deceiver is masquerading himself! The evilness lived out in some people's lives should not surprise, nor alarm us when we recognize the enemy for who he is. Trying to "UNDERSTAND" him can be tricky since we are of GOD! The main thing I "UNDERSTAND" is that the final battle has been won and JESUS wins! THAT I "UNDERSTAND"!!!
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