This morning I'm reading through Jeremiah 17. It's all about the fickleness of a person's heart, how we so easily shift our focus from God to man. In the gospels, Jesus pointed out that we can't have two masters; we can only serve Him or we can only serve ourselves. Hot or cold. There can't be lukewarm followers of Christ.. That's like an oxymoron. You feel me?
So verses 7-9 have really stuck out to me as I read.
[The is what the LORD says:]
"But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.
He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."
Am I the only one who's digging this? I love how He said that our confidence should be placed in Jesus. Not that we solely trust in Him, and run to Him.. but we are satisfied in doing so. We are confident.
I also found the latter part of this passage really neat, as well. God refers to those who trust in Him and who are satisfied in Him as a prospering tree. A tree planted by the water - the greatest spot for a plant to be. It never would be thirsty, it never would be fearful of thirst, and it would bear fruit. It would be completely satisfied!
That's exactly how we believers should be! When we are dwelling in God's presence, trusting in Him.. He satisfies us. We don't have to fear that He will provide, because we are so in touch with Him that we know He will.
Plus, and I like this one personally, when we're dwelling in God's presence, saturated with Him, He promises we will never fail to bear fruit. God will use us! Our eyes are able to see things the way He does, our spirit can sense when God's leading us somewhere, and somehow! our fear of talking to people or being rejected by people vanishes.
Perfect love casts out fear.
So yup. That's something God pointed out to me today. Enjoy Him today, fully. Be confident in Him.
Ally
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