In 1929, Life magazine observed, “Now that the newspapers have statistically proven that most people still believe in God, it might not be bad journalism to see if God still believes in us.”
Americans have never had such a sense of repentance as they had after the stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression. Scholars in history and economics tell us that the great national trauma which lasted more than a decade was not just bad luck. As a people we had been selfish, greedy, and unwise. Why would someone ask whether God still believed in us? Because we had at that time a profound sense of failure.
Our faith, though, says that God’s love and support for us never waver. As the psalmist writes, “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness!”
God does not believe that we will always be good, wise, and
noble. But he never ceases loving us. The faith of
Many of us have proved God faithful again and again in our own lives. Our trust in his promises, our love for him, and our performance of his will have been intermittent at best. But he has continued to love us.
As we walk with the Lord into each new day, our bedrock confidence is not in ourselves but in the sure truth that God still believes in us, still loves us, and will see us through. He trusts that one day we will trust his steadfast love for us.
Praise God for the riches of his mercy and his grace!