“Fear is the pain of anticipated evil.”

Aristotle said it. The moment you hear it, you know it’s true. Because Aristotle was just spelling out something that all of us know on a gut level.

That things could go wrong? It’s a source of fear for all of us. Because we all know that it’s going to happen. The only questions are what and how often.

What makes it worse? Knowing that people will turn on you.

Either by taking advantage of you when it all goes wrong. Or making sure everyone knows about it. Maybe both.

Scattering the pieces of everything that broke. As if nothing ever went wrong in their lives.

When someone you thought was a friend turns on you? It’s even worse.

When it all falls apart, you find out who your true friends are, who loves you unconditionally.

Jeremiah shows us time and again that no matter whether it all breaks down because of something that happened to us. Or it’s something that we did to ourselves. Maybe both.

No matter why things went wrong.

God still loves you. Unconditionally.

No matter who turns on you.

God won’t.  

No matter how things fall apart.

God will always be there to help you pick up the pieces.