The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon

Ever have one of those moments when something clearly sticks out to you while listening.. It was a hummm.... moment.. the kind of moment that you actually make that sound.. 12 springs and 70 palm trees was all it took for me to go hummmm...

Why these 6 words? They were enough to make me hold on to them and come home to start to study scripture until 1:30 in the am...

Then Moses led the people of Israel away from the Red Sea, and they moved out into the desert of Shur. They traveled in this desert for three days without finding any water. ²³ When they came to the oasis of Marah, the water was too bitter to drink. So they called the place Marah (which means “bitter”).²⁴ Then the people complained and turned against Moses. “What are we going to drink?” they demanded. ²⁵ So Moses cried out to the Lord for help, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. Moses threw it into the water, and this made the water good to drink. It was there at Marah that the Lord set before them the following decree as a standard to test their faithfulness to him. ²⁶ He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you.” ²⁷ After leaving Marah, the Israelites traveled on to the oasis of Elim, where they found twelve springs and seventy palm trees. They camped there beside the water.


After God told them to listen to Him, follow, and do what is right in His sight.. He brought them to an oasis.. A place where there are springs and trees..This was not only a promise that they heard, but He also showed them the promise. He showed them something that was going to come in time. They saw the springs and the palm trees.. He showed them what they could be.. They could flourish, and grow.. He showed us what the 12 and 70 would look like in the future.. The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;... He is showing us what we can be like.. We can be righteous, flourishing trees..that grow like palm and cedar..


The seventy palm trees were near the water..The trees of the LORD are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.  They were drawling their water in from the springs of water welling up.. Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” When Jesus sent out the seventy, He appointed them and he said  “ Heal the sick, and tell them, ‘The Kingdom of God is near you now.’
  
I love that God is always speaking. He is always trying to get me to dig deeper. He is everywhere trying to get me to hear and see.. Sometimes when I read, I just see and hear what I am literally looking at, but God is always trying to get through to me.. He is leaving us treasures to find..
  
Then the angel showed me a river with the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. ² It flowed down the center of the main street. On each side of the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, with a fresh crop each month. The leaves were used for medicine to heal the nations. ³ No longer will there be a curse upon anything. 

He is always drawling you closer and closer to Him. Always wanting you to know more of Him.. He wants us to be living off His water, and growing in righteousness and in His grace.. There is so much more I got from digging into these verses, but it would take me hours to try to separately sort out what I see and hear with this.. I love that God heals.. I love that He wants to water me, I love that He wants to grow me, I love that He wants to send me out, I love His promises! <3 I love that Jesus is my Rock, He is my all and all..