Jeremiah 17:14, “Heal me, O LORD, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.” After hearing what our Creator has is accusing the nation of, Jeremiah begins a prayer. The thought in this verse is what many of us ask for today, “Fix me because I’m broken.” Only our Creator has the ability to heal us, to fix us and to make something that He made already perfect in His eyes, even better.

"And hereby we do know that we know him: if we keep his commandments."

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Being raised in the church, I never questioned what I was taught about the resurrected bodies given to believers after Judgement.

It was my understanding that it would be a perfect, "unbreakable" body that doesn't suffer injury nor death and doesn't get tired.

(Well, I won't even go into the whole "living in heaven for ever and every" part of that belief system as I have very early on learnt that that isn't Scriptural.)

If so, then what is the purpose of the Tree of Life growing on both sides of the river running east out of the New Jerusalem?

Revelation 22:2 reads: "Through the middle of the broadway of the city; also, on either side of the river was the tree of life with its twelve varieties of fruit, yielding each month its fresh crop; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing and the restoration of the nations."

The leaves are for healing, but if our bodies are perfect and can't get injured then what is the purpose?

Isaiah 65:20-22 says: "There shall no more be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who dies prematurely; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies when only a hundred years old shall be [thought only a child, cut off because he is] accursed.

They shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat [the fruit]. For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, and My chosen and elect shall long make use of and enjoy the work of their hands."

🤔 Hmmm, does this mean that people will still die from old age as even a very old tree has a lifespan, but if someone dies young then they will be considered accursed?

Then it goes on and Isaiah 65:23 says: "They shall not labor in vain or bring forth [children] for sudden terror or calamity; for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them."

So people will still labour, bear children and rest.

This sounds like time gets "reversed" to how it was directly after Adam and Eve were rejected from the Garden as people grew very old, could get hurt, had children, laboured to build houses, etc.

Am I missing something in my thinking and should I include other versus as this doesn't sound like the promise I was sold in church? 😳

Thought for Today: Thursday July 03

A secret agent is a person that is trained to protect his country, his king or his president against evil forces that are opposed to the leader he/she serves. YHVH has His own secret agents – the angels. Unseen and unrecognised by the world, they never fail in their appointed tasks. Many things have been written over the past years about angels --- often not based on the Bible but on popular legends… only in eternity will we know how many accidents they prevented, or how often they kept satan’s malicious spirit at bay. In the meantime, we can take comfort in their presence, and thank YHVH for the Love He expresses for us through their service.

When you serve a false god instead of the living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob you have to deliver the god instead of God delivering you.

And he blessed Joseph, saying, 'May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day, the Angel who has delivered me from all harm, bless these boys. May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they increase greatly on the earth.'

Fatherhood is both a privilege and a tremendous responsibility through which Yehováh gives us the opportunity to influence the lives of the children He gives us. Just as in all aspects of life, He does His part, and we do ours. As we interact with our children, we can also understand how our Eternal Father relates to us.

Pray with awareness and intelligence; vain repetitions are of no use and are an abomination before Yehováh. But a prayer spoken from the heart, sincere and spontaneous, has a high chance of reaching our Father’s throne and receiving His answer. May Yehovah give you wisdom and direction to do what is right for your children.

Wonderful teaching to watch with your family.