Let’s read Jeremiah 17:9 &
Psalms 51:5 in tandem
“The
heart is deceitful above all things and
beyond cure. Who can understand it?”
“Surely
I was sinful at birth, sinful
from the time my mother conceived me”
Can you think of a few
wicked and deceitful people you know of? “Bad” people from the history or the
present can be easily identified and criticized. Jesus said - “Make
a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will
be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit” (Matthew 12:33). A man
is deemed either “good” or “bad” based on his outward life (fruit). This “Fruit”
refers to the human personality and “behaviour” is the expression for
“personality”.
At
times, “behaviour” could be stunted to hide the actual “personality” for social
and moral acceptance. At times, even “personality” could be trained and shaped
to hide the actual “nature” for the same reasons. But human “nature” can never
be trained/shaped or stunted enough to stop it from being wicked and deceitful.
The human “nature” is nothing but the human “heart”. This “heart” refers to the
“root” of a man.
Your
heart and my heart are beyond cure..!
What
is done when a physical heart is beyond cure? It is replaced with a healthy one
of course..!
What should be done when
a spiritual heart is beyond cure? It should be replaced with a healthy one of
course...!
You and I inherited
this “wicked & sinful heart” through Adam’s sin. But, you and I can receive
a “graceful & righteous heart” as a replacement to this “wicked & sinful
heart” through the atonement of Jesus Christ...!
You may be very
“well-behaved”, you may even have a calm & composed “personality” but are
you really aware of the status of your heart?? read Philippians 2: 1-11
You were born SINFUL
but you don’t have to die as one..!!
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