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Monday... Yes, we can know.


Jeremiah 17:7 (AMP), "Blessed [with spiritual security] is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the LORD and whose hope and confident expectation is the LORD."

Monday... Yes, we can know.

Yes, there is a lot that we do not know. I know there is a heaven but I really don't know a lot about it because God hasn't told us. But there is so much that we do know because God has told us.

Now God told the prophet Jeremiah this in Jeremiah 17:7 (AMP), "Blessed [with spiritual security] is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the LORD and whose hope and confident expectation is the LORD." Now do we know exactly what blessed means? Well, do know that if we believe and trust and rely on the LORD and our hope and confident expectation is in the LORD then we will be blessed.


Now he gives an example of what it means to be blessed. Verse 8 says, "For he will be [nourished] like a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the river; and will not fear the heat when it comes; but its leaves will be green and moist. And it will not be anxious and concerned in a year of drought nor stop bearing fruit."

Yes, we can know what will happen when we believe, trust and rely on the LORD and if we have hope and confident expectation in the LORD. Yes we know we will be blessed.

Now this is something else we can know. Verses 5-6 (NLT) says, "This is what the LORD says: 'Cursed are those who put their trust in humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the LORD. They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land."

We don't need to guess we can know and we can choose. Yes, God made us as free moral agents. He gave us the ability to choose and he gave us the Bible where He tells us what we must do in order to get his blessings. Yes, he gives us a choice between being blessed or cursed. We may not know everything but we can know what we need to know. That is why we must spend time reading God's Word, the Bible so we will know.

Yes, we can know and we can chose. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning



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