To Smile on What Will Be

"I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, 

along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; 

I will turn the darkness into light before them 

and make the rough places smooth. 

These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them."

Isaiah 42:16

You grant us assuring promises.

But we admit our hesitance to believe them.

Either our current circumstances suggest otherwise,

or they sound too good to be true. 

Teach us that faith in you is vindicated in reverse.

We find you trustworthy by trusting you.

We find you powerful by subjecting ourselves to your might.

We know you as Father by embracing life as your children.

Teach us to hope for the coming days,

to smile on what will be.

In the meantime, we have full access to all that is yours.

There is no shortage.

Thank you for superintending all things as a Father, our Father.

Teach us to relate to you as such.

We ask these things in the name of Jesus,
Who for the sake of promise-keeping bore all grief, even to the grave.

Amen.