Happy Sabbath Everyone!I am reading in the book of Jeremiah currently. It is not always the most optimistic book to read! But it is only because of the fault of the people who insisted on going their own way, and forsaking God--the only one who could hear them and help them. Instead they turned to idols, who can see not and hear not.
But even so, there are still some beautiful gems and promises for us in this book. Here is a great "consequence" passage. God makes it pretty clear--if we would only choose wisely!
"This is what the Lord says: Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord. He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
"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." Jeremiah 17:5-8
Beautiful promise. Notice that it does not say that the drought will not come. No, it says that WHEN the year of drought comes, the man who trusts in the Lord will have no worries. That man (or woman!) will still be sustained, because they are trusting in God.
Isn't that how you want to be? I do. Trusting in God--no matter what is going on around me.
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