Tomorrow

"For to you, O Jehovah of armies, have I committed my cause," Jeremiah 11:20.

The problem with committing our cause to God rests in the fact that God doesn't always save us the way we had anticipated. To be sure, sometimes he does. But in many moments, his salvation doesn't look all that great. Two verses before the line above we read that the prophet spoke of himself like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. Further on, we read of Jesus who trusted himself to God who judges justly, all the while he was crucified. So what does it mean to commit our cause to the Lord? To trust ourselves to God? It means to believe God stands faithful to his word even as we die. To live faithful to death. It means to live by the conviction of things hoped for - but not yet seen. To live by faith in him and not by what we experience. It means to live by faith and not by sight. 

Today, when we extend mutual hope with a brother or sister, we remember what we see isn't it. We seek a city not made by human hand. And, together, we give thanks to our God who will justify our faith tomorrow.