The filthy holes and puddles in which it grovels',

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"The human heart is most deceitful and desperately
wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?" Jer. 17:9

The sin of our fallen nature is a very mysterious thing. 
We read of "the mystery of iniquity". Sin has depths 
which no human plumb-line ever fathomed, and lengths 
which no mortal measuring line ever yet measured out. 

Thus the way in which sin sometimes seems to sleep;
and at other times to awake with renewed strength;
its active, irritable, impatient, restless nature;
the many shapes and colours it wears;
the filthy holes and puddles in which it grovels;
the corners into which it creeps;
its deceitfulness;
its hypocrisy;
its craftiness;
its persuasiveness;
its intense selfishness;
its utter recklessness;
its desperate madness;
its insatiable greediness;
are secrets, painful secrets, 
only learned by bitter experience.

"The human heart is most deceitful and desperately
wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?" Jer. 17:9