"...for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.... Behold, I have refined thee...." Isaiah 48:8-10
"But Jesus did not commit Himself unto them, because He knew all men...for He knew what was in man." John 2:24, 25
God knows the heart of man; He knows mankind's natural inclinations. As Mr. Chambers put it, Jesus is the authority on the human heart. Needless to say, he does not trust man; he trust what He can do in and through man. The Cross of Christ speaks nothing towards our potential as humans, and speaks volumes about are inability to save ourselves.
Christ's attitude is to be our attitude. Our Brother trusted no man, yet He was never bitter or cynical, because He knew the potential of the power of God and what it could do in men. Consequently, the only person that He trusted was His Father.
Our distrust of humanity is not to be a matter of cynicism but a matter of realizing that the abiding Reality is God. The instant we stop accounting for God, our distrust becomes biting and cruel. When we account for God, however, our distrust is augmented by our trust in God, and His presence is free to have its way in our lives. To trust man is naive. To merely distrust is cynical. To distrust man but trust God is the only way to live with eyes wide open and spirit irresistibly sweet.
"With eyes wide open
Under the Light of God.
See my Father's Hand
Working wonders again..."
-Jon Vowell
"But Jesus did not commit Himself unto them, because He knew all men...for He knew what was in man." John 2:24, 25
God knows the heart of man; He knows mankind's natural inclinations. As Mr. Chambers put it, Jesus is the authority on the human heart. Needless to say, he does not trust man; he trust what He can do in and through man. The Cross of Christ speaks nothing towards our potential as humans, and speaks volumes about are inability to save ourselves.
Christ's attitude is to be our attitude. Our Brother trusted no man, yet He was never bitter or cynical, because He knew the potential of the power of God and what it could do in men. Consequently, the only person that He trusted was His Father.
Our distrust of humanity is not to be a matter of cynicism but a matter of realizing that the abiding Reality is God. The instant we stop accounting for God, our distrust becomes biting and cruel. When we account for God, however, our distrust is augmented by our trust in God, and His presence is free to have its way in our lives. To trust man is naive. To merely distrust is cynical. To distrust man but trust God is the only way to live with eyes wide open and spirit irresistibly sweet.
"With eyes wide open
Under the Light of God.
See my Father's Hand
Working wonders again..."
-Jon Vowell
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