Jeremiah 17:7 But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.

Jesus lived out the scriptures. He did not make new scriptures but rather fulfilled them by loving us like God does.

The scriptures are full of places where God was blessing the poor and needy, those who were willing to trust in Him for everything.

If we continue to trust in God, we too will see these blessings and comfort fill out lives!

1 kings 13:33 Even after this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways, but once more appointed priests for the high places from all sorts of people. Anyone who wanted to become a priest he consecrated for the high places.

When I was asked if I wanted to go and train to be a priest, I rejected the idea at first because I did not believe God was calling me to be a priest at that time!

If we simply do what we want to do, we may be working against God’s wishes – even if we are doing something we believe God would approve of!

If we wish to please God we should listen to Him and obey Him. We have a long history written about before us where we can see how horribly things went wrong when people did what they wanted instead of obeying God.

Think and Listen!

Psalm 81:10 I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.

Have you ever tried to feed a baby who was more intent on making a mess than eating? It doesn’t end well!

Even when we are fighting a losing battle with a wayward baby, we still continue to get them to open their mouths so we can feed them!

God has to continually try to make us open our hearts to what He has to tell us, just so we can get to grow in the truth and flourish with Him!