Text: Jeremiah 17:5 - Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the Lord."

Let's face it, we are paradoxical, a people who, while expressing our trust in Almighty God, are motivated by the apparent conviction that humanity is more to be trusted. That which is real is that which is pragmatically, empirically proved to be of value to humanity, and it is almost without exception something that humanity has produced. We have closed our ears to the warning of the "weeping prophet" Jeremiah: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man."

The story is told of the man who went into the toy department of a large department store to buy an educational toy for one of his grandchildren. The clerk was recommending a particular toy, and the man a…