God takes care of His children. We are in a world that will do its best to destroy us but God protects us even in this wilderness and we are safe. He gave us Jesus the true shepherd to break the sins that bound us and to guide us home. He showers us with spiritual blessings that we may know Him by the Holy Spirit that lives within us. The fruit we bear through Him, love, peace, mercy, kindness, we share with the world that they may see Him in us.
The exiles were encouraged through this promise of a covenant of peace, characterized by these promises: (1) security from foreign aggressor nations, the wild beasts; (2) showers of blessing, meaning productivity and prosperity; and (3) the certainty that the Lord is Israel’s God and desires reunion with His people and a lasting relationship built on a new covenant.
Ezekiel 34:25-29
25 “I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 26 I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 Then the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase. They shall be safe in their land; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them. 28 And they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, nor shall beasts of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make them afraid.
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