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."

The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?

"I the LORD search the heart
and examine the mind,
to reward a man according to his conduct,
according to what his deeds deserve."

Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
is the man who gains riches by unjust means.
When his life is half gone, they will desert him,
and in the end he will prove to be a fool.

A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning,
is the place of our sanctuary.
O LORD , the hope of Israel,
all who forsake you will be put to shame.
Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust
because they have forsaken the LORD ,
the spring of living water.

Heal me, O LORD , and I will be healed;
save me and I will be saved,
for you are the one I praise.
They keep saying to me,
"Where is the word of the LORD ?
Let it now be fulfilled!"
I have not run away from being your shepherd;
you know I have not desired the day of despair.
What passes my lips is open before you.
Do not be a terror to me;
you are my refuge in the day of disaster.

Jeremiah 17:5-17

I listened to a good sermon by Tim Keller, the head pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church here in NYC. This passage reminded me that all of us trust... whether it be in man (other people) and one's own flesh/strength or in God.

It's not a choice of no trust or trust in God. We either trust in our intelligence, experience, rationality, environment, etc etc. or in God and His Word revealed to us. Therefore, we have no choice but to trust - either in ourselves and others or in God.

Put that way, I can't help but feel that it is better to trust in God. What do I know? What do other sinful, fallible, limited human beings know? Faith then doesn't seem to be the hardest way, rather, it's really the easiest way.