Bjcorbin's Blog

What is it in the heart of a man

that makes it so easy for him to resist truth

and yet so readily be drawn into deception

What is it that causes him to chase after the frivolous

and to so easily forsake what ought to be cherished

Why is the forbidden fruit so enticing to him

while that which is nourishing rots on the vine

What is it that causes him to try to explain what he could not hope to know

and yet live in denial of that which is obvious

What is it that causes him to scoff at what is sacred

and yet lament at the hollowness of his existence

Why does he so callously devour innocence

and so easily embrace destruction

What is it in the heart of a man

that causes him to demand his autonomy from a just God

and yet willingly enslaves himself to the idol he chooses as a substitute

“The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9