Outcome

"Who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?" Daniel 3:15.

This remains ever the question, doesn't it? What god? What god can save us from others? Or even from ourselves? Evil power overwhelms. The mess is too big. Now, everybody likes the story of David and Goliath, the scrappy little guy who undoes the big bad guy. But what about when there's just no win here? When shock and awe and fire are the only outcome? Faith in God arises from the heart of a human being who decided to obey. No matter the outcome. Even if God will not deliver victory. That human being will still do the right. That human being will yet hold in highest honor God, creator of the cosmos, who has not saved against a fiery furnace. The only God worthy of that trust is true God, able to deliver into eternity. That's who this God is.

Today, with a brother or sister, we reaffirm mutual faith in the only true God of all, who is through all, over all, and in all. And, together, we give thanks for what only faithful eyes see, Christ, the hope of Israel, whom this God resurrected from the dead.