WHO CAN WE TRUST?


Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity. Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord .
 Jeremiah 9:4-6 ESV



¶So many of our values are absorbed from our neighbors. We are merely adopting the things that the media and those around us say are important. And so we ourselves tend to present the facade that we think will gain the approval of others. We can see how this works: we are drawn in to being deceived by the world's measures of success, and then we reflect these same values back to the world from our own lives. We ourselves, and our neighbors, are pressed and oppressed by the world's deceitful values. "Natural selection", a gentle term for survival of the fittest, presents to the modern world sufficient justification to go out and get all you can while you can for yourself and your own. This modern view destroys the soul. There is this One, however, who knows our real selves, and invites us to know Him through His Word. His call, however counter it runs to what the world is presenting to us, is the only truth against the lies and deceptions we are so vulnerable to follow.