Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your judgments like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.  Psalm 36:6  

Did you know that the concept of our faithful God, El Emunah, is present throughout the Old Testatament? It is showcased powerfully in today’s scripture. The preservation of man until the end is only due to God’s faithfulness to the ones He created and saved for His glory. This is comforting when our lives take an unwelcome turn and our immediate future is uncertain.  God knows the nature of our exiles and deliverances.  The names of those who will shape our future are already pre-chosen. All is on schedule to lead us to glory.  

God has foreknowledge of every detail that constitutes our lives.  He spoke our name long before we existed, called us by name at the moment of our spiritual adoption, and will speak our name again when He welcomes us home.  Not one step (though uncertain as it may seem for us) causes Him to worry about us.  

He is the God who dismantles and the God who rebuilds.  He is the God who wounds and the God who comforts.  He is the God of the faithful and the God of the exiles.  These days, when anger and fear make up our global emotional climate, we trust a Father who whispers, “Don’t be afraid.”  Our life does not begin and end with deliberate, even erratic actions, of influential people.  Our life began with God, long before our first breath, and it will continue – without end – in His presence.

You preserve and sustain with unwavering faithfulness. You are a good, good Father. Amen