God's Assurance!
"These all died in faith, not having received the promises,
but having seen them afar off were assured of them,
embraced them and confessed that they were strangers
and pilgrims on the earth."
Hebrews 11: 13
Is anything harder in life than keeping promises? Making
promises is easy; keeping them is another matter. Sadly,
everyone has broken a promise—or at least not kept a
promise as well as they would have intended.
And our experience of breaking promises makes
us wonder about God and His promises: If we
don’t always keep ours, does God?
The first 12 verses of Hebrews 11 list ordinary people who got
promises from God but never experienced their fulfillment before
they died: Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, and
others. But they did not doubt God. They were “assured” by their
promises and “embraced” the promises and died believing the
promises as “strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”
We are like them. We've been given “great and precious promises”
(2 Peter 1:4), some of which may not be fulfilled in our lifetime. That
is why we're called to “walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7).
Be assured by God’s promises. Embrace God’s
promises. Live and, if need be, die, believing God’s
promises. God is true, so are His promises.
"The whole covenant…
is a bundle of promises."
Thomas Brooks
