"Its leaves remain green and is not anxious in the year of drought," Jeremiah 17:8.
What's this? What leaves stay healthy when there's no water? These: the leaves of a tree on the banks of a stream. Well, what's that got to do with the price of tea leaves in the far East? Here's what that's got to do with: A human being who trusts God in the middle of an unprecedented royal mess flourishes just like those green leaves. In the middle of plague. In the middle of rebellion. In the middle of chaos. Compared to what? Compared to the human being who turns to human power, human ingenuity, human machinations. That human-trusting human, but not God-trusting human, will snap like an old dried-up twig.
When we visit with a brother or sister today, we discover anew the blessings of life together beside God's desert streams. And, together, yes, together, we give thanks for the blessings flowing from his kingdom in the sky.
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