"A PROMISE KEPT"

Well, we are beginning to hear all the promises come forth from the potential presidential candidates. If they could get done half what they are promising, this country will be well on it's way down the right path!  But you and I know that just won't happen, for there are too many people in between their ideas and the actual implementing of them.

Have you ever made a promise that you could not keep?  I still remember one that my dad made me when I was little.  I was facing another surgery and he promised me that if I went through it, he would let me ride every ride in Disney Land.  Now this was old school Disney (for Disney World had not been built yet in Florida) so we are talking California, where good old Walt Disney roamed the streets! But alas, dad's promise never came true!  Looking back, it was so silly!  There were 5 of us kids and a dad who drove a truck.  How could he afford to take a family of 7 clear across the country on his salary to do that?   But before you feel too sorry for me, I did get to go to Epcot not long ago, and I am sure I looked just like the Griswald's in "Lampoon's Vacation" arriving at Wally World, when I finally got to go!

But I too, made a promise that I could not keep when our oldest grandchild was born. He was in very critical condition in the NICU unit and I said in front of everyone:  "When he has his 16th birthday I will buy him a car!"  How silly of me, for I have 7 other grandchildren now! Can I buy all 8 of them cars?  Not unless I win the lottery, but then I would have to buy a ticket first! We did get to spend a very special night at a concert with him and I bought him a "Hot Wheels" car so I did semi-fullfill it!  Didn't I?

However, there is one who is always faithful to keep His promises.  God!  In Joshua, after the Israelites had taken over the land that God told them to possess, the scripture says this:  "Not one of all the Lord's good promises to the house of Israel failed; every one was fulfilled." (Joshua 21:45, NIV)

God makes lots of promises to us in His Word and  as "Our Heavenly Father"  he will fulfill them.  Here are a few of them:

Looking out our front door after a rain

God promises us in Genesis 9:15-16 "I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind.  Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." (NIV)

He promised the Messiah and it was fulfilled when Christ was "sent forth from a virgin" in the accounts of Matthew, Luke, and John.  

And He promises that He will come again and take us to be with Him forever. Isaiah 65 says: "Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth.  The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. (vs 17)  Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth;  (vs. 20)  

This promise is especially important to me, because I had a grandson who died at 9 days old and a father-in-law who died just 1 month shy of his 100th birthday. 

So all I can say is hang on sisters! His promises are true and every one of them will be fulfilled. You can take that to the bank!