Nehemiah 9:9-15

Nehemiah 9:9-15
English Standard Version (ESV)

 We all want to know what's going to happen in the future.  We look forward with anticipation to see what might come, eager to know the future, wondering if our greatest hopes or fears will come to pass.  We spend much energy worrying about the future, wondering about the future, mulling over endless possibilities of what today and tomorrow might hold.
  The Bible spends a lot of time on the future, but the Bible also calls us to look back, for in looking backward we are anchored--we remember who we are, and we remember how we've arrived at today.  As a people focused on God, we remember all that God has done, and in doing so, our hearts are shaped in such a way that we come to expect God to continue to be reliable, for we have this common memory lodged within us of all the times when God was perfectly faithful to his promises.  We learn about how God is dependable and trustworthy, and each story we read about God's faithfulness gives us a little more confidence to place more and more trust in God, until we find ourselves lost in him, so complete is our love and dependence upon the One who shall never fail us.