Friday, June 26th, 2020

So often it seems like we have come to the end of everything.  Some of the hysteria during the lockdown was a good example of this.  Yet in the Lord this is never the case - never completely.  As we see in today’s First Reading:- the king’s sons are killed; the king is publicly humiliated and his eyes are taken out; Jerusalem is burned down; and everyone is transported far away to a foreign land.  It would be reasonable to expect everything to be over.  Yet within a century everybody is back, the city built again and the worship of God is pursued far more ardently than ever.  And within a few hundred years God himself is walking amongst his own people - he is with them.  It will always be so for as long as we put our trust in him: he will never be unfaithful.