The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
"Who can understand it?" isn't a rhetorical flourish — it's an honest confession. The human heart, this verse says, is deceitful, and not in some abstract, other-people way. Above all things. Sick to the point that even the person carrying it around can't fully diagnose what's going on inside.
That should be oddly relieving to hear, if you've ever caught yourself justifying something you knew wasn't right, or been surprised by your own reaction to something small. You're not uniquely broken. This is what the verse says every human heart is like, underneath the version we present to other people.
It's not a flattering starting point for a conversation about God. But it might be a more honest one than starting with how good everyone secretly is. If the heart really can't be trusted to grade its own work, that raises a real question: who else's judgment could you trust instead?
If your own heart isn't a fully reliable judge of you, whose verdict would you actually trust?
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.