Supernatural Resilience!
"Accept my words and store up my commands
within you, turning your ear to wisdom"
Proverbs 2: 1-2
Deserts are inhospitable places with little rain—
blazingly hot by day and chillingly cold by night. Few
plants can survive, but the rock morning glory can.
It has large underground tubers resembling sweet potatoes that
store water whenever it rains. In times of drought, it’s sustained
by the water stored in its twenty or so underground reserves.
Jeremiah 17:8 says of those who put their confidence in God:
“They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its
roots by the stream. It doesn't fear when heat comes; its
leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of
drought and never fails to bear
fruit”.
Sometimes we’re in the desert,
and that can feel quite desolate.
But if we store God’s Word in our hearts day by day,
pondering and trusting all God tells us, we’ll have
supernatural resilience.
"Those who make God their hope, shall flourish like a tree always
green, whose leaf does not wither. They shall be fixed in peace
and satisfaction of mind; they shall not be anxious in a year of
drought….They shall not cease from yielding fruit in holiness
and good works."
Matthew Henry
