Evergreen Fruitful

5 This is what the Lord says:
“Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans,
who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord.
6 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.
7 “But blessed are those who trust in the Lord
and have made the Lord their hope and confidence.
8 They are like trees planted along a riverbank,
with roots that reach deep into the water.
Such trees are not bothered by the heat
or worried by long months of drought.
Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.

- Jeremiah 17

People often hope in anything that is tangible, things or people that they can see and rely to for a better future. It could be a job, a company, an insurance even or a business, a loved one, parents and even more that they trust will keep their future safe. But this is a dangerous thing to do says GOD. Who describes such people who trust in any other things than HIM as stunted shrubs with no hope for the future. This sounds scary coming from GOD who knows the beginning to the end. Stunted shrubs are short trees that look so dry. To be a shrub in a dry dessert, living in barren wilderness that no one inhabits because it's too dry is a horrible thing to be. Would you really trust in anything that will cause you to be like a shrub only to find out disappointed in the future that all the that your have trusted in has failed?

On the other hand, if you chose to trust the unseen GOD, the invisible yet most powerful one, GOD Himself calls you blessed. The only thing tangible we can have with GOD is His word the Bible, the record of history of what He has done, testimonies of other people's lives who have trusted GOD. But this is the best way to be, to be trusting GOD, exercising our faith because we cannot see what we put our hope and trust into. But if you do take heart to what He says, you are compared to that like a tree whose roots go deep into the water, not bothered by any weather, calamity or seasons of drought because their roots are in the water, the Word of GOD, which sustains them making them evergreen and fruitful.

Shabbat made for Man

23 One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through some grainfields, his disciples began breaking off heads of grain to eat. 24 But the Pharisees said to Jesus, “Look, why are they breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath?”
25 Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you ever read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 26 He went into the house of God (during the days when Abiathar was high priest) and broke the law by eating the sacred loaves of bread that only the priests are allowed to eat. He also gave some to his companions.”
27 Then Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people, and not people to meet the requirements of the Sabbath. 28 So the Son of Man is Lord, even over the Sabbath!”

- Mark 2

GOD is an awesome and unpredictable being. HE has spoken His laws on many things but we think we know His opinion about a certain matter, when in fact we really don't. Take the Pharisees, they were the law makers, those who made GOD's laws even more higher than it is and so they are also people that judge others. They obey GOD's laws to the highest standard like not doing anything on the Shabbat. But GOD cannot be put in a box, what we think is right may not necessarily be right at all. To understand who GOD is, we have to have faith in Him and to truly know His being and character will take forever to do.

When the pharisees judged His disciples "did" something that broke the law on Shabbat, Yeshua pointed out to them, an incident in the old testament where David took the sacred bread from the temple that only the priests were allowed to eat. But they couldn't answer him. The point of Yeshua is not to be extreme with everything. GOD made Shabbat for man to benefit man. Not the other way around. We were made for GOD, so our highest approval should not come from laws but from GOD. For GOD is higher than the law and to understand His laws, we also need to understand why He made them so we don't mix it up.