"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful." (Hebrews 10:23, ESV)
Millions and millions of promises are
made every day. Millions of promises are spoken, perhaps with words and desires
well intentioned, but may fail in the coming months or years. Millions of promises are useless because of
the lack of integrity on the speaker’s part even as through the meanings of the
words spoken might indicate surety. Millions
of promises are made to manipulate the emotions or the thinking of another person
because of selfish and even evil motives of the speaker. Millions of promises are simply forgotten and
millions of promises can never be trusted.
Against the frailties and failures of
millions of broken and forgotten promises we see the promises made by the
Living God. For this is the God … who promises
to love His children through prodigal selfish hedonistic abandonment and He
does. This is the Father who waits and
promises to give mercy to those that deserve judgment … and He does. This is the Father that promises to send a
Messiah and a Redeemer to His stubborn and rebellious world and He does. This is the Giver of grace who promises that His
grace will carry us through bitterness, weakness, heartache, brokenness, hurt,
damage and death and He does.
Every promise is sure because every word
He speaks is true. Every promise is pure and never forgotten because He is
everlasting. We may fail to see the outcome
of all His promises at certain times but we can know the surety of His working
for the good of His children. Every
promise He makes is sure and we can trust in Him completely even when we cannot
see or understand what we see or understand.
There is no other so faithful to deliver on every promise because every
promise He makes is sure.
"So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised."
(Hebrews 10:35-36, NIV)
Suggested Daily Reading ... Hebrews 10
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