The heart matters

We are facing continually worsening times. In my own works, difficult circumstances are not short of supply everyday. However, if I look at the recent cases of different pathologists' reports, marching on for the cause of English or mother tongue, the raintree, the sleeping beauty and many others, probably, my difficult circumstances are as small as turtle eggs!

I was sharing with a learned professor on what's becoming of our society, he said, "This indicates that the system is breaking down."

I beg to differ. God unfolds to Prophet Jeremiah the root cause to the miseries, heartaches and injustice and evils in life. In the book of Jeremiah we watch the death of a nation. The Kingdom of Judah was slowly falling apart under the infection of evils which had spread across the land, from the King all the way down to the common people.

In just two lines, God unfolds,

The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately corrupt. (Jeremiah 17:9a)

We know how deceitful our heart can be. It is clever. It is crafty. It can always appear one way when it is quite another! I confess, I am guilty of that often.

And how corrupt are our hearts? A major surgery performed by the best heart surgeon would not save the diseased heart! I was sharing with a friend yesterday on her heart surgery some few years back. She said that the surgeon gave her a 99 percent recovery, while asking her to ignore the 1 percent uncertainty. Still, there is one per cent of uncertainty with the best surgeon!

Indeed, no system of government, of philosophy, of psychology, of education, will ever serve to eliminate the wrongful, evil failing of the human hearts!

And,

Who can understand? (Jeremiah 17:9b)

God's solution?

I the Lord search the mind and try the heart,
to give to every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his doings." (Jeremiah 17:10)

We reap what we sow. That will be another story, another day.