When we come to Christ we must understand the process that we will go through for the rest of our lives. We could do nothing to earn our salvation, so we can do nothing to keep it. Our eternal life was not for God's benefit, but it was for our own benefit. We could do nothing to earn God's love and therefore we can do nothing to lose it. Many believers today struggle with trying to earn or keep something that God gave us freely. Anything earned is no longer a gift but becomes a debt payed. We could not pay our debts so all we had to do was to accept the gift of eternal life. All of our efforts in natural works ended when we accepted the resurrected Christ as our Lord and Savior. Like the tree that is planted by the waters here in Jeremiah 17:8 we are called to be rooted in Jesus Christ and His teachings. This is the only part we have to play in this process. The deeper the roots grow truly determines how high the tree grows. When we see trees uprooted due to wind storms and hurricanes it's because the tree was top heavy and not deeply rooted. See our God is a gracious God and He will not put on us more than we can bare. So those believers that really want to glorify the true and living God must simply rest, pray to grow in intimacy, and study to show thyself approved. The deeper you study the scriptures and pray without ceasing, the more God will be able to allow His Holy Spirit to work through your vessel because you will be established and well rooted in His truths. Just like the scriptures says is verse 10 below; "I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind." Therefore our command comes from Romans 12:2 "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." We must rest in the Spirit and just soak up God's Word through reading and meditation, God will take care of the rest. God will bare the fruit of our trees in His season!!! Today, continue to rest from the works of the natural flesh and be still, enjoy the waters of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and deeply root yourself in Him!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of Spiritual Rest on purpose!!!!!
Jeremiah 17
5 Thus says the LORD:
“ Cursed is the man who trusts in man
And makes flesh his strength,
Whose heart departs from the LORD.
6 For he shall be like a shrub in the desert,
And shall not see when good comes,
But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness,
In a salt land which is not inhabited.
7 “ Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
And whose hope is the LORD.
8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,
Which spreads out its roots by the river,
And will not fear[b] when heat comes;
But its leaf will be green,
And will not be anxious in the year of drought,
Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
9 “ The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
10 I, the LORD, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.
11 “ As a partridge that broods but does not hatch,
So is he who gets riches, but not by right;
It will leave him in the midst of his days,
And at his end he will be a fool.”
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning
Is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel,
All who forsake You shall be ashamed.
“ Those who depart from Me
Shall be written in the earth,
Because they have forsaken the LORD,
The fountain of living waters.”
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