In the past week I have witnessed more than six rainbows in a variety of places from the Florida Keys to the Mountains of North Carolina. And it got me thinking about God’s promises . . .
What is a promise? My five year old, will make me ‘pinky promise’ and she knows then what I say is true. Wikipedia defines it as “A promise is a commitment by someone to do or not do something.” But as human beings often times our promises are broken, which is somewhat understandable as we do have control over things, such as the weather (and simply cannot count on the weather man being 100% accurate).
But God’s promises cannot and will not be broken because he is God! The everlasting and almighty. He can control even the weather – remember when Jesus calmed the storm by simply saying “be still”?
I did a google search on the promises of God and found a page that listed 10 scriptures about God’s promises. The first verse listed is 2 Peter 1:4. (I prefer the KJV below):
1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Notice the words ‘exceeding great’ and ‘precious promises’. And secondly look at what these promises relate to: we get to be “partakers of the divine nature” and have “escaped the corruption this is in the world”.
No, God’s promises are not to be confused with our imperfect and sometimes menial promises of ice cream or a day at the park. God has put great thought into his promises and when he says he will do something consider it DONE.
I have more to ponder on this subject and will add more as we go along, but I want to leave you with this thought: Why do we stress out about the things of this world, when God already has our place ready for us in heaven? He has overcome the world, shouldn’t we strive to do the same and to truly trust Him?
