Jacob Holman

Cutting Maiana’s Leaf Pt 2. 🍌💛🌴

I’m letting go of a need to feel validated by man before I do things. I want to be better at putting my trust in the Lord.

When I have put my trust in man it works sometimes but I have found it can be conditional and un-reliable. When you trust in God, you can have a stalwart source of peace and strength.

This week I read :)

🕊️Jeremiah 17:5-8
5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

I really was caught on “for he shall be like the heath in the desert” Heath is a meager bush found in deserts. It’s such a beautiful visual to imagine the contrast of a small bush vs. green beautiful fruit-giving tree.

I LOVE thinking that if I put my trust in the Lord, that I will have roots nourished with water, and I will worry not when the heat comes, I will not need to be careful in droughts, and will not cease yielding fruit.

If it helps put in the comment below the thing that you want to try letting go of! I’d love to add it my prayers!

Love, Jacob your internet friend 💕☀️

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