UPLift: In whom can we trust?

Human beings disappoint, so we become wary and find it hard to trust. Politicians aren't the only ones who fail to carry through with promises. Friends, colleagues, and family members also let us down.

For the latter groups, we need large doses of forgiveness and, sometimes, confrontation about their perfidy, in order to give them opportunity to change.

Looking inward, we discover we ourselves have also made promises that we couldn't keep or that we decided to disregard.

So the following truth about God and his word provides us hope.

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You Are the Burden

 
Prophecies, or inspired messages, given to the prophets in the Old Testament were sometimes called "burdens." These messages burdened the heart of God and of the prophet, for they were given in times of moral laxity and religious infidelity. They were unpopular messages, calling people to the hardest action of all, that of repentance. They held forth a threat.

The prophet Jeremiah received a burden about the way the people used the word "burden." The passage is a bit longer than what we generally quote, but well worth our time. Don't go away. Read this.