Who is cursed and who is blessed?

A Christian’s life is distinguished from a non-Christian’s life in that the first have Christ at the centre of their life. A Christ-centred life is the objective of a Christian’s life in order to be blessed by God, to be in Communion with the Creator. This relationship evidently shows who is blessed and who cursed. In Jeremiah’s Book (17:5-8) we read what God has claimed about who is cursed and who is blessed:

“Cursed is the man who trusts in man

And makes flesh his strength,

Whose heart departs from the Lord.

For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,

And shall not see when good comes,

But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,

In a salt land which is not inhabited.

 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,

And whose hope is the Lord.

 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,

Which spreads out its roots by the river,

And will not fear when heat comes;

But its leaf will be green,

And will not be anxious in the year of drought,

Nor will cease from yielding fruit.