“But, O LORD of hosts, You who judge righteously, Testing the mind and the heart, Let me see Your vengeance on them, For to You I have revealed my cause.” Jeremiah 11:20

What happens when we are faced by challenges and problems? How do we react? And what is our first natural response?

Some people despair, others call for help, others run to God. Jeremiah was one who ran to God. He made his case known to Him and trusted in His justice.

Many of the righteous people ran to God for deliverance from their troubles.

“I cry out to the LORD with my voice; With my voice to the LORD I make my supplication. I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare before Him my trouble.” Psalms 142:1-2

David knew that God was the One to deliver, the just Judge and the Omniscient God.

“But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief, To repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.” Psalms 10:14

Pope Kerolos the 6th lived a life of prayer and put everything on the altar, all his problems and difficulties. He liked the following verse from Jeremiah’s Lamentations:

“It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD.” Lamentations 3:26

Together with Jeremiah, he knew he could sing the following:

“But the LORD is with me as a mighty, awesome One. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper. Their everlasting confusion will never be forgotten.” Jeremiah 20:11