Jeremiah 17:5-8

I think we need to hear this word from the Lord.

⁵ This is what the Lord says: Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes [human] flesh his strength and turns his heart from the Lord. ⁶ He will be like a juniper in the Arabah; he cannot see when good comes but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one lives. ⁷ Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence indeed is the Lord. ⁸ He will be like a tree planted by water: it sends its roots out toward a stream, it doesn’t fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.

Do you trust in yourself or in man or do you trust in God? I think that is a good question for the times in which we live.

One More from Honduras

We flew 1500 miles to eat at Pizza Hut! This is just outside the Tegucigalpa airport. The pizza was pretty good!!

Ministry in Oropoli

Here I am with my fellow pastor, Malcolm Lance. We were helping to weigh people as they entered the medical clinic. Malcom was a great help; he's been in Honduras many times and knows the ropes. He serves at Cathey's Creek Baptist Church in Brevard, NC.

Oropoli, Honduras

This is the great view up the "hill" in Oropoli. You can see for miles. Folks in the U.S. would pay big bucks for a view like this.

Preaching in Honduras

I haven't had time to write much about my Honduras mission trip but it was a great time of ministry. Baptist Medical and Dental Ministries International [BMDMI] has a fruitful ministry that pretty much runs like a well-oiled machine. Here I am preaching under the "Gospel Tent" one morning getting folks ready to go to the medical clinic. We were in Oropoli, Honduras about 2 1/2 hours SE of the capitol. During the week over 24 hundred people were ministered to and heard the gospel.

Jeremiah's World and Ours

I've begun reading Jeremiah in my devotional time and when I got to chatper 2, verses 27-28 jumped off the page:

27 say to a tree: You are my father, and to a stone: You gave birth to me. For they have turned their back to Me and not their face, but in their time of disaster they beg: Rise up and save us! 28 But where are your gods you made for yourself? Let them rise up and save you in your time of disaster if they can, for your gods are as numerous as your cities, Judah. Jeremiah 2:27-28 (HCSB)

Jeremiah's world was not different than ours. How often we serve our idols but when we get in trouble we turn to God and ask that He get us out of it. Yet God asks, "Why can't the idols you serve get you out of trouble?"

Far too often people turn their backs on God, not really giving Him much of a place in their lives. Yet they go to church on Sunday, going through the relgious motions and cry out to God when the heat is turned up in their lives. We shouldn't expect God to come to the rescue; He won't.

God save us from this kind of hypocrisy.