So often, we're uncertain of the outcome.
We look around and don't recognize the landscape, and so we wonder what the next chapter of the story holds.
What Scripture often reminds us to do is look backwards. Psalm 22 is rooted in the story of King David, who brought chaos into his house through his own sin, and yet the promise of God never departed from him. He, too, could look backwards as he prayed, and draw assurance from the fact that God delivered his ancestors, and so God is reliable.
The first words of this Psalm are what Jesus cried out on the cross, in the grip of the agony of sin, the full weight of it falling upon Jesus. In his pain and despair, Jesus looked back.
We, too, can look backward in times of uncertainty. We can see God's faithfulness spread across the pages of history, and we can see Jesus on the cross, fully demonstrating God's great love for us.
So while the future may be uncertain, the element of God's faithfulness will be there, trusted because of what we have learned from the past.
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