Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. 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.
A friend and I went out into the New Mexico desert one day to search for artifacts in an abandoned Indian village. I, fresh from the lush suburbs of Chicago, had no comprehension of the raw in-hospitality of a desert. I could not comprehend how that village, estimated to be a population around 2000 people, survived. No water for miles! No wild life to hunt and feed on! Totally nothing but cactus and scrub bushes.
An almost perfect simile a for life which is turned from the LORD and trusts in the faithlessness of man.
Today's readings in the Psalms:
Morning: Psalm 85
Mid-day: 119:97-104
Evening: Psalm 11
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