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Jeremiah chapter 49, verse 4.

Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures,

saying, who will come against me?

Wow, do you hear that picture?

It's possible to put your trust in the treasures of this world, and the things of this world,

and what you can acquire or attain or accomplish, and think that you are secure. Who will come

against me? This people had said. They had put their confidence in the things they had attained

and acquired, accomplished in this world. And now

they were realizing there was not reason for security in those things. This is a clear reminder to

us today in God's word, not to put your trust in the things of this world in anything,

ultimately anyone in this world, to put all your trust in God, in Jesus. This is the only

way to have security in this life. So God, we pray that you would help us to see the things,

the treasures, the positions and possessions of this world in proper perspective.

God, open our eyes to see all of their unreliability and not to put our hope

in them, our trust in them, not to find our security in them. Yes, God, we praise you for your

provision of good things and treasures in this world, including houses to live in, and jobs to provide for

ourselves and others through and so many other things that you have given to us that make

our lives possible in this world. But God, we pray that in it all, you would help us to remember that our trust is in

you, that you are our security, not these gifts from your hand, such that when those gifts are gone

in this way or that way, we still have our treasure in you, that our ultimate treasures, God would not be the things that we attain

or acquire or accomplish in this world, that you would be our supreme treasure, oh God,

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