“Blessed Is The One Who

Trusts In The Lord”

This is what the Lord says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord.

That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They 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

We see the images of trees flourishing and perishing when the prophet Jeremiah relates them to God’s people who either trust in the Lord or ignore His ways. Those who follow God will send their roots into soil near water and will bear fruit, but those who follow their own hearts will be like a bush in the desert. The prophet years that God’s people would rely on the true and living God, that they would be “a tree planted by the water.”

We know the “Father is the gardener” and that in Him we can trust and have confidence. May we follow Him with our whole heart as we bear fruit that lasts.

When we follow God, He makes us to flourish.

Our Daily Bread – October 28, 2017