Jeremiah 4:22 (NIV)
22 “My people are fools; they do not know me.
They are senseless children; they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”
They are senseless children; they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”
No man is more pathetic than he who is in great need and is
not aware of it. Remember Samson? Standing there in the valley of Sorek,
surrounded by the lords of the Philistines, ” . . . he wist not that the Lord
was departed from him.” It has been truly said, “No man is so ignorant as he
who knows nothing and knows not that he knows nothing. No man is so sick as he
who has a fatal disease and is not aware of it. No man is so poor as he who is
destitute, and yet thinks he is rich.” The pitiable thing about the Pharisees
was not so much their hypocrisy as it was their utter lack of knowledge of how
poor they actually were in the sight of God. There is always something pathetic
about a man who thinks he is rich when he is actually poor, who thinks he is
good when he is actually vile, who thinks he is educated when he is actually
illiterate.
Thought for today:
Do I seek God in all my decisions?
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