Jeremiah 17:7-8
"But blessed is the man who trust 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 doesn't 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!"
When I was in kindergarten, my father dug a pond on our farm and stocked it full of fish. On the one side of the pond, we planted an orchard. I remember the day we were planting the trees and how excited I was that we were going to be able to eat apples from the trees that we planted.
We planted two willow trees about 15 feet away from the edge of the pond. The other trees were aways away. We always had to water the apple trees but never the willow trees. My grandfather told me that they were pulling water from the pond. As a five year old, I didn't understand that concept but now I do. Those two willow trees were the strongest and tallest in the whole orchard.
How many times in our lives have we worried about different things that were happening in our lives? We constantly worried about things. Wondering how we were going to make it or get through a certain situation. When the situation is all finished and you looked back at the worry, you realized that God provided everything that you needed.
I can't tell you how many times growing up that I heard my mom and dad say they didn't know how they were going to find the money to pay for something and somehow we always managed to get by. We have to put that trust in the Lord.
I know for me sometimes it is hard to trust a person, even a person that I have known for a while. So how can I trust someone that I have never seen or touched? That is what faith is all about. You can't see God or touch God but you know that he is always there. You see the effects that He has on your life. He calls us everyday to "Let Go and Let Him!"
Dear God -
Let our roots go toward you in our daily lives. Thank you for always providing the nourishment that we need.
Amen
