(Nuggets from Jeremiah 17:13)
Prophet Jeremiah was speaking to the people of Judah on the need to see God as their ONLY HOPE because they foolishly proposed an alliance with the Egyptians, hoping that they would protect them from the Chaldeans.
Putting trust in man ends in DISAPPOINTMENT and MISERY, but there is WISDOM and HAPPINESS in TRUSTING THE LORD.
Anyone who forsakes the Lord will experience SHAME and DISGRACE, just like abandoning a protective shield and going to a war front empty-handed, or deciding to walk about on the street without putting on an apparel to cover one's nakedness.
Living your life without Jesus is FUTILE because He is the only one who can give your life a meaning. He is the reason you are alive in the first place, and Revelation 4:11 stated clearly the reason you and I were created - FOR HIS PLEASURE!
Those who depart from Jesus shall be written in the earth, meaning that they shall disappear just like what is written on the ground; they will not stand the test of time.
JESUS IS LIFE, THE ONLY SOURCE OF LIFE!
Jesus had an encounter with the SAMARITAN WOMAN at the well and she caught a glimpse of this FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS.
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water from the well will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Jesus is the HOW. He doesn’t have to figure it out. HE HAS THE POWER TO DO ANYTHING. The woman says "How?" and He says "Through me. And not only through me once but I will provide and keep on providing. I will spring up in you and around you and I will never run out."
We jump to wanting to know how something will be done or we want to figure it out on our own, but we are reminded here that Jesus is THE HOW. It’s not on us to figure it out or make it all work. We get to surrender to the endless love, grace, and work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Jesus provides and keeps on providing. He doesn’t ever stop taking care of us. He doesn’t ever stop nourishing our souls. He doesn’t ever stop meeting us right where we are with exactly what we need. Jesus has the final say.
Life in this context is 'ZOE' (In Greek). ”Zoe means the GOD-KIND of LIFE. PHYSICAL and SPIRITUAL life. This is God's SUPERNATURAL LIFE that is abundant and wholesome and can only be gotten by having an encounter with Jesus. The ZOE LIFE is what Jesus mentioned in John 10:10.
There, we read that Jesus came to give us life and life to the full. Our physical existence is void of meaning (and dead) without knowing and having the source of all life within us.
When we believe that Jesus is who He says He is, He gives us Himself! He gives us real life that is more than enough, greater than this physical, temporary life, and exceedingly abundant with the fullness of His presence.
FORSAKING JESUS IS FORSAKING THE SOURCE OF LIFE, THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS; EMBRACE JESUS TODAY AND CONNECT TO THE ZOE LIFE.
This is HOLINESS CHALLENGE
DAY 39 OF 365 (2026)
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