Figs..3..

 Figs…3…

I know…figs again, but couldn’t help it…was walking this  am before heat hit again…listening to Jeremiah 24,25…”two baskets of figs, 70 years of captivity “…

The Lord showed Jeremiah two baskets of figs…

 One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. And the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.” Then the word of the Lord came to me: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not pluck them up. I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart. 

“But thus says the Lord: Like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them. And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.”

Jer.24.2-10

My Bible study notes were so good on this passage…

“…We may assume we are blessed when

life goes well and cursed when it does not.  But trouble Is a blessing when it makes us stronger and prosperity is a curse if it entices us from God. If you are facing trouble, ask God to help you grow stronger for him. If things are going your way , ask God  to help you use your prosperity for Him…”

It seems we make a lot of assumptions about good and bad things happening in our lives.  But, God is always working for our good if we love him.

 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Rom.8.28-30

 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Phil.1.6

Thank YOU…

A song and singer from my childhood…

His eye is on the sparrow …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOwgQq70XBE&list=RDvOwgQq70XBE&start_radio=1

Really interesting article…

https://www.oneforisrael.org/bible-based-teaching-from-israel/figs-in-the-bible/