The first person here is us thinking naturally and the second blessed person is us when we are walking by faith. This isn't some other person this is you and me!
"Thus says the LORD:
Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?" - Jeremiah 17:5-9 ESV
There is no middle ground. It is either Adam or Christ. Our Adamic natural 'man' thinks one way and the new us that has a living spirit quickened by the Holy Spirit thinks a different way. We put on Jesus like a garment and choose to cast down one set of thoughts and confess the truth we have been taught about what God says and how He thinks.
All of that is in the Bible. It isn't a mystery. We may be ignorant but we can search the scriptures and find out what a blessed person is concentrating on. That truth becomes water for our soul.
Flip the switch with me and with every other believer on the planet who is choosing to walk by faith today. Turn on the light by mixing faith with the truth.
"But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me." - John 15:26 ESV
The Spirit of God will honor a decision to walk by faith in the truth. A humble person who is sending down roots to find water will find it.
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