stuck in my head

"But Jesus would not entrust himself to them,

for he knew all men.

He did not need man's testimony about man,

for he knew what was in a man."

John 2:24-25

This is the verse that has been stuck in my head all day today from my reading in John last night. Jesus did not entrust himself to man-- because he knew the nature of man-- because he was a man. Not to say we shouldn't trust one another, but reaffirming the belief that we are not to have faith in one another as we have faith in God-- because all people are all-fallible. We WILL mess up, we WILL let each other down, we WILL fail. We sin.

This also hits on something that I have been trying to put into words since a conversation on a hillside in England, where my friend told me that he places all of his faith in people, realizing that he would get let down every time:

Faith is for God alone. That is a love I can have only for Him. I cannot have faith in people-- people will let me down every time. I can, however, in place of this faith, LOVE them. I love God through faith, I love people through love. Does that make any sense? I've been mulling all of this over in my head and can't seem to put it into intelligible words. But I do love how every time I delve into His word, something leaps into my head and my heart and won't let go.