Jeremiah 17:7-8

“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.”

Trusting in the Lord leads to life, especially when difficulty comes. That’s the lesson God wants to instill in us through Jeremiah’s words in chapter 17. He does that with a simple picture.

He tells the story of a tree that sunk its roots deep into the ground. That paid off because of the inevitable things coming in the future, heat and drought. When those seasons hit, one normally dangerous for a tree, the tree not only survived, it thrived even in the harshest of conditions. The reason? It had tapped into an ever-present source of life from the water deep in the ground.

You are that tree and you will be ready for harsh and difficult seasons of your life when you trust in the Lord. Trusting in the Lord taps you into an ever-present source of God’s life, power, and strength. Difficult and harsh seasons of life will come. That’s inevitable. However, God’s life and power gives you the ability not simply to survive them, but rather to thrive in them.

Trusting in God and his powerful Word prepares you to praise and glorify God and produce goodness even when under pressure not to do that. Trusting in God gives strength to stand strong when the peer pressure of the world heats up.

Cling in faith to your God because he is your ever-present source of life for every season of life, especially the hard ones.