Thread:Superdadsuper/@comment-14847494-20151204023742/@comment-1777104-20151218020355

I came across this in devotional reading: From the prophet Jeremiah (my translation):

This is what the LORD says: "Let him who trusts in mankind, or in his own strength, be accursed, for he is as one who is running away from GOD ."

I paraphrased, for policy is to be translation neutral. Well, I guess I'm biased.

But anyway, God was telling Jeremiah that it was foolish for men to trust in the government or armies, and especially to trust oneself to be his own boss. It is a danger even among believers. In Jeremiah's day, the Babylonians were about to come in to destroy Jerusalem. God's instructions through the prophet were to surrender, and then go live among the Gentiles for a time. Nobody listened.

God is the only One we can trust one hundred percent of the time. Why try to survive without Him?