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 17:7-8 (NIV)
Trust is a hard thing to give sometimes, especially if you are trusting in someone that others cannot see.
I like that this verse compares confidence in the Lord like a tree planted by the water.
If we are the tree, and the Holy Spirit is the stream, when we fill our souls with the Holy Spirit, we too will have no worries and we will never fail.
What does an outsider, a non-believer or even someone that is not in a close relationship with the Savior see when they see us?
It is our personal responsibility to be sure that people see the right thing.
We are all going through a lot, even those of us who are really good at hiding our emotions, every single one of us is going through something.
The world wants to make us victims of our tragedies, and when we become a victim, we become ineffective Christians.
We are warriors, warriors fight, warriors train and we are called to refuse the victim status and not become neutral in a very polarized world where intolerance is acceptable and the refusal to allow any other opinion than your own is the norm – we must fight to show God’s love, to stand in the truth of who God is, of what God says.
We need to take our thoughts captive and act counter-culturally, to stop being in judgement of others because when we judge others we are setting them up for failure.
It is not an “us against them world”, it is us against the powers of darkness and we are called to be bold, to be brave, to press in, to be firmly rooted in Christ, to dig deep and grow.
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