The Promises of God
“For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.”
2 Corinthians 1:20 (ESV)
We live in a world that has learned to mistrust promises. Political promises abandoned the day after an election, commercial promises in fine print, relational promises that wear thin. A promise, in a human mouth, has become a wager. How then can we receive God's promises without the same reflex of mistrust?
Paul gives the distinguishing mark: God's promises are sealed in Christ. They do not float in the air like intentions; they have an anchor point, a body, a cross. You are not invited to believe in sentences — you are invited to hold on to a person who held on to the end.
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Numbers 23:19 (ESV)
By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature.
2 Peter 1:4 (ESV)
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10:23 (ESV)