It will be okay.
JEREMIAH 17
Joss Whedon, screenwriter-producer famous for films like Toy Story on being asked if he had hope that the human race is becoming smarter and better. Whedon said: “What’s going on in this country, and many countries, is beyond depressing. It’s terrifying. Sometimes I have to remember who I’m talking to. I’ll say something about how terrible things are, and meaningless, and the world is headed toward destruction and war and apocalypse. And at one point my daughter goes, “Hey! I’m 8!” She doesn’t want to hear that stuff. But I can’t believe anybody thinks we’re actually going to make it before we destroy the planet. I honestly think it’s inevitable. I have no hope …. I want to be wrong, more than anything. I hate to say it, it’s that line from The Lord of the Rings-“I give hope to men; I keep none for myself.”
Many like Joss have this fatalist impression and prediction for our future.
“Faith is confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in his power, so that even when his power does not serve my end, my confidence in him remains because of who he is” —Ravi Zacharias,
To those in despair today, it will be okay.
Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him, v7.
Thomas Smail said: When the prayer made in faith is not answered, and the healing for which many have sought does not come, we are not to look for someone to accuse of failure in faith. Rather we are to remember that besides faith there is hope. Hope has to do with God’s promises that are still future and hidden, just as faith has to do with God’s promises that are here and now. To the person who has believed for today but has not seen the answer come today, there comes the call to hope. Hope says, “Tomorrow also is God’s. Enough has happened already to assure you that the rest is on the way.”
Missions Paul 