And to die, going forth from this life without knowing exactly where we are going except into the hands of God, is our ultimate act of faith. Everywhere throughout life people live in the confident assurance that what they hope for will one day come to be. Every day we live with convictions about things that are not yet seen. To be realistic, however, we must pay attention to the fact that a good deal of our recent history attacks our faith. We have been betrayed and betrayed often by people in our lives, all of which erodes our basic need to believe in others.
Life is unfair and bad things do happen to good people.
And yes, many people are unreliable. But, for all that's wrong in life, in our world and in others, we cannot afford to give up and stop believing and lose faith. Jesus knew that back then and he knows that right how, which is why Christ presents himself to us. He comes to us, after all, in faith, placing himself in Holy Communion in our hands with the belief in his heart that we accept him in love and with a firm purpose to live as he would have us live. Yes, this world belongs to God.