“This is what the Lord says: If I do not keep my covenant with the day and with the night, and if I fail to establish the fixed order of heaven and earth, then I might also reject the descendants of Jacob and of my servant David. That is, I would not take rulers from his descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But in fact, I will restore their fortunes and have compassion on them.” (vv. 25-26)

When you are caught in the crisis…

When all that is good seems to have been evacuated…

When hope is hard to come by…

…how in the world can you be confident? How can anyone trust in a turnaround? What evidence is there that God is, and that God is for us?

Here is where the words given through Jeremiah help us:

Our confidence doesn’t just come from the appearance of what we’d hoped for. It isn’t rooted in the full revelation of all the good we’d prayed to see. The evidence that God is for us still isn’t measured by our sought-after blessings in the moment.

The evidence that gives us confidence is that God is still very clearly governing His world. His unfailing faithfulness today—sunrises and sunsets, life and not death, a world in finely-tuned balance—tells us that He will be faithful then, too. He doesn’t have to provide the specific thing we desired right now; He simply provides.

Trust Him, then, for He has ordered this world for good.

—Tyler