THE EVIL HEART OF MAN When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.  —Genesis 8:21 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”   —Genesis 11:4             Because “every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth” man sets out to 1-…

YIELD TO THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”  He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.  Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”  I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I…

GOD’S GREAT GRACE! And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”  —Genesis 3:15 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. —Genesis 3:21 Blessed is the manwho walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.. —Psalm 1:1-2             Counsel from the wicked is not a blessing, but to delight in God’s…