But I will deliver you in that day…and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. For I will surely deliver you, and you shall not fall by the sword…because you have put your trust in Me. Jeremiah 39:17-18
When I say, “I know Whom I have believed, and I put my trust in Him.”, it is not the same kind of statement as “I know I am sitting on this couch at this moment, typing out these thoughts.” The latter is an objective certainty in time and space. The former I hold to be just as certain as my physical position on the couch, yet it is a metaphysical certainty. Faith is like standing on your tiptoes, reaching with fingers outstretched for something that is just beyond your grasp. But you know it’s there, so you keep reaching, you keep stretching.
The reaching and the streching are temporaral things, as are this keyboard, this couch, and my body sitting on this couch for that matter. The faith will someday (soon) be sight. Then my fingers will no longer ache from stretching; then I will touch, then I will see, then I will experience—in time and space—my Lord and my God, the One in Whom I have put my trust, the One my very soul has been reaching for all along. He will return to this earth as He promised. He will set His foot on this planet, and every eye will see Him. Speed the day.
