What may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. Romans 1:19.

This God is our God for ever and ever; He will be our guide even to the end. Psalm 48:14.

Creator God – Father, Son, Spirit, longs to heal our hearts and minds but how can He when we turn away from Him? The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Romans 1:18-21. I loved this today from You Are The Beloved by Henri Nouwen: “I think that we have hardly thought through the immense implications of the mystery of the incarnation. Where is God? God is where we are weak, vulnerable, small, and dependent. God is where the poor are, the hungry, the handicapped, the mentally ill, the elderly, the powerless. How can we come to know God when our focus is elsewhere, on success, influence, and power?” I have found that to be true throughout my life. It is when I am in need of deep truth, not of mankind, that God is there.

And in our chapter, Jeremiah 17, is the eternal truth we need to understand. “Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool, inscribed with a flint point, on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars. Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles beside the spreading trees and on the high hills…Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.” v. 1-2, 5. That’s not just Judah. That’s us. “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” v. 7-8. A difference so needed. Why? The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? v. 9. That’s Jeremiah’s desperate cry and becomes the cry of our hearts when we reach that point we all much reach. Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for You are the one I praise. v. 14. And there is the truth our spirits long for even as our hearts deceive us. “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.” v. 10. Don’t kid yourself. We each of us will die and we each of us deserve to have this life lived in this age of men die. And our hope for all mankind? Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed…save me and I will be saved…How will we be healed, how will we be saved? Creator God. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through Him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life! Romans 5:6-10. As we turn to God, He can heal our hearts and minds and begin a journey with us in this life and right with us through the doorway of our death and into the embrace of His loving arms. Death is not the end. His love for us is too great. Jesus, the Son, went before us to show us the way to life eternal and it is so good! He will heal us. Thank You, Lord, for so great a Love!