Under a Curse

Then there’s another very important curse pronounced in the prophet Jeremiah, which is just a few short words, and I think often we pass them over without really appreciating their significance.

“Thus says the Lord, ‘Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.’”

Notice, please, that that’s a very good description of somebody under a curse. Blessings are all around, but he lives in a salt land, you understand? Rain falls everywhere else, but it doesn’t fall on him. What’s the cause of that curse? Trusting in man, making flesh your arm. But the scripture says, “whose heart departs from the Lord.”