A Thankful Heart: This is Abundant Life

Linking up with Lisa Jo Baker again for Five Minute Friday.  Click HERE to join in the fun!  Today's word prompt is "Tree".  

Go.

I took a little road trip last weekend to visit my parents with my boys.  Todd needed some down time with all he's had going on with work and his dad's health.  There is a place on my parents property that I love to sit and reflect.  This old swing, attached to an old branch that is probably older than I.

It's here where I sit and think about God's glory and His personal invitation for us to seek Him and fellowship with Him.  It's here where I watch as the lake, hit with drought, recedes, yet the trees thrive with an abundance of leaves.  

It's here that I realize there is nothing I can do to make these trees live.  They are taken care of by our Heavenly Father.  Those trees, they aren't worried about when the rain will come or how much it will be.  They just live.  They thrive in the trust that He has already provided.  Here is what God promises us if we trust in Him.  

Jeremiah 17:7-8  "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.  He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit."

What an amazing God we serve.  The only thing we need to do is trust in Him, and He will take care of the rest.  All those worries and anxieties are not meant for us to hold onto.  Trust completely in Him, and even in the dry times, we will not cease to bear fruit.

Stop.

Ah, so much more to write about that, but time is up!