Jeremiah 17: 5-8
This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD. He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. "But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."
Cursed are you when you put trust in another flesh and not trust in the LORD. You can't do both at the same time either. God knows those who put their trust in Him and those who don't. You can pretend to, but it won't work with Him. You can decieve man easily, but you can never decieve God. He will demonstrate to you, what it is to trust in Him. The end will show who you had trusted in. Each time you run to man, He knows it. He will reveal those who had trusted in Him, no matter how difficult it got. They persevered in Him without taking the shorter and evil route of cheating, lying and decieving others. They feared God above man.
They are ever willing to suffer the shame and humiliation of having to "carry their cross" while in this world, like the Lord Jesus Christ and the apostles who obeyed the Lord Jesus Christ till the end. They persevered and ran the race of Christformation in them till the end with their obedience to all that Christ had commanded and not attempt to take'short-cuts' and cheat all the way, thinking to themselves that they will reach the finishing line, by 'hook or by crook'. It doesn't work that way with God. It may work that way with evil men and their systems that exist but not with God. You will find out soon!
Hebrews 12:1-2
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
