I Kings 8:56 NKJV:
“Blessed be the Lord , who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.
There is something peculiar about most of God's promises: all generations will testify to its longetivity, its endurance and its never-failing consistency. God doesn't waste words, so whatever he says, there is a power that backs it up and ensures that his words come to pass.
Solomon here was recounting the dealings of God with his people and as he looked at his life and the people God had put under him to guide, he could see that all that God had promised to his own fathers were coming true. Not a single one had failed. Truly, our nature, failures and humanity can never change who God is. Nothing I do or refuse to do can make a difference to who God is. He doesn't need me to prove he's God; he's God, no matter what I do or say. The making of His promises aren't dependent on my faithfulness; it is their fulfilment that depends on my faithfulness. As long as I'm faithful and
obedient, God's promises are sure over my life.
I must therefore live for today with God's help, and put tomorrow in His hands. When the devil brings the fear of the future to me, I remind him of God's nature: the Alpha and the Omega, the one who's able to finish everything he's started. When the devil brings the fear of the unknown to me, I remind him of the God who supplied 3 meals per day unfailingly to the Israelites for 40 years without a cooker or burner.
His Word is sure, alive and active because the Word is his nature. His Word can be trusted because he also can be trusted. Rest in him and be free from worry, because his time of favour is here.
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