'When I am afraid, I will trust in you'

Reading Scripture at this time of uncertainty, realizing that the psalmists proclaim trust and hope in God like battle cries.

Trusting and hoping in God are active states. They are declared, like punches that grab at the reality that God wants us to live in. They are a running against the current, against the very real despair and worries in which the psalmists live.

Very much like we may live in now. For those of us who don't live under the relentless opposition of kingdoms wanting to kill us, we may live with the stress and strain of the future or our own inner demons tearing us apart. At this juncture, where many of us look into the future and all there is a blank, an open space of trembling uncertainty and lack of security, we must trust and hope in God.

What does that mean?

Life changes, people change, but God never changes. He is good, and trustworthy, and faithful, all the time. He has always been who He is, and always will be.

So we who live here in this strange land, in this strange place in time, we proclaim hope and trust in Him like battle cries. When everything in us and around us feels like all that we have is out of control and there's no way out of it. We remember that God is still God. We remember things like Psalm 56, and all they mean. We remember that we must fight to trust, hope, and have faith in the God of inconceivable goodness and power of whom our whole lives are praise.

And we say, Blessed be the name of the Lord.