Jeremiah 17:7–8 NLT Context
In the chapter leading up to this verse, God is telling Jeremiah about the nation of Judah. The people of Judah had followed in their ancestors’ footsteps, becoming unfaithful and abandoning God in favor of idols.
And so, because of their insistence on following their own evil desires and their refusal to listen to him, God let them go. He left them to their ways, even though he knew they would waste away without him.
But what could he do? They had their heart set and would not be turned from it. Instead of trusting in God, they decided to trust in their own ways.
Jeremiah 17:7–8 NLT Meaning
The result wasn’t a thriving life. God compared them to stunted shrubs living in a barren, salty, uninhabited wilderness, without hope for the future. They were missing out on their best possible life.
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Jeremiah 17:7-8 (Contextual Verses)
But those who put their confidence in God? They are like trees planted along a riverbank, whose leaves stay green and never stop producing fruit.
Even in hard seasons, when everything around them is drying up, their leaves are green because they are connected to a source of life that is unaffected by the seasons.
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Their lives are vibrant! They are fruitful, offering sustaining fruit to those around them. Not only are they fruitful in the fertile seasons of warmth and plentiful rain, but in all seasons.
Jeremiah 17:7–8 NLT Application
We were never meant to live dependent on our own strength and abilities, apart from God. That was never his plan for us.
We were made to live in a relationship with God, trusting him to guide us through and provide for us at each of life’s twists and turns.
Jeremiah 17:7 Commentary
Whatever comes your way today, count on God. Instead of trusting in your own knowledge and logic, be confident in his reliability, his truth, his ability, and his strength.
When we accept God’s deep love for us, and we spend time studying his Word and learning his Truths, we will flourish. He will keep us thriving and vibrant through all of life’s trials.
Jeremiah 17:7 Devotional
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.”