Statuary on the facade of the Duomo, The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy, 2012, taken by Martha M Wiggins
“Thus says the LORD,
‘Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind
And makes flesh his strength,
And whose heart turns away from the LORD.
For he will be like a bush in the desert
And will not see when prosperity comes,
But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,
A land of salt without inhabitant.
Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD
And whose trust is the LORD. For he will be like a tree planted by the water,
That extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes;
But its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of drought
Nor cease to yield fruit.” Jeremiah 17:5-8
We are in this world but not of this world. We are eternal beings created by God, The Father, redeemed by Jesus Christ, The Son, and guided by the Holy Spirit. We are human, and while we are not both human and Divine like Jesus, we are created in the image and likeness of God. Our goal is Life Eternal shared with The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Life on earth is but a single page in the story of our personal eternity.
As creatures of flesh and blood, God endowed each of us with a free will. In that free will we can choose to turn away from all that is God and choose to place our trust in all that is man. In doing so we are cursed. We will not prosper and we will live in the stony wastelands. However, in that same free will we can also choose to place our trust in all that is God and be blessed. In doing so we will be as a tree with roots by the stream, never fearful of drought and never ceasing to yield fruit.
Choose God or man: created, redeemed, and guided; or created, exiled and barren.
“Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by sight— we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” 2 Corinthians 5:6-10
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