Jeremiah 11:20
“Then I said, “GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies, you’re a fair judge. You examine and cross-examine human actions and motives. I want to see these people shown up and put down! I’m an open book before you. Clear my name.””
“O Lord pf Heaven’s Armies, you make righteous judgements, and you examine the deepest thoughts and secrets. Let me see your vengeance against them, for I have committed my cause to you.”
Jeremiah has just discovered the men of Anathoth as scheming to murder him. They are tired of his preaching and want an end to it. Jeremiah shows us what to do, take it to God and trust him. God is a fair judge, examining out deepest hearts. I cling to this when grieving the moral confusion of this time. He alone knows the woundings of every heart and how we choose to let them shape each moment of our lives. Standing at the intersection of the temporal and the eternal we can trust him to deal justly with each one of us. He puts everything right.
Lord, I trust you. Let me not slide into the laze of universalism. Help me reach out with truth, hope and love to all I meet, serving your eternal purpose to put everything right and make all things new.