A modest journal. |
Sunday, November 7, 2010, 5:18am Before you do something that involves another, ask yourself two questions: What do I have to lose? and What do they have to lose? If those two questions don't bring a "balanced" answer, don't do it. The one who has the least to lose, may become cocky and neglectful of even the smallest civilities; whereas, you may find yourself beholden to them and eventually forced out. In other words, trust no one (man, woman, child, brother, sister, mother, father). Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. Jeremiah 17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. Jeremiah 17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. |