Deuteronomy 32:18
You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? It does everything it can to forget God and to place itself on the throne of our lives. It whispers in our ears that we do not need the Lord and that all we have is because of our work and not from the Lord.
The question the serpent asked in the garden of Eden, “Did God really say...?” is still the question of our hearts. Our hearts seek to worship anything and everything other than the Lord God Almighty. It is our unbelief in the Word of God that threw us out of the garden, and it is unbelief in God that keeps us from knowing and trusting in Him.
For God is holy and we are not. Our hearts and our flesh desire to flee a holy God. For in the moment when we see ourselves as we truly are, we realize we are deserving of complete and utter damnation and eternity in hell apart from the grace of God.
But the Father, who loved us before the foundation of the world, chose us in Him and sent His only Son into the world to redeem us from our sins. We are to look to Christ and not to the world; we are to trust in Christ and not our own flesh; we are to walk by faith and not by sight.
Jeremiah 17:9, Genesis 3:1, Ephesians 1:4
Father, You are in heaven. You are high and lifted up; You are above all things, yet my mind so often desperately wants to make myself above all things. Unbelief seeps in, and many times I listen to its whispering, deceiving myself by its perceived innocence rather than Your Word. Grant my heart to rest in You; grant my heart to see You working all things together for Your glory. Grant my heart to rest in the hope of Your Kingdom. In Jesus’ name. Amen