Promises are often made that are not always kept.
Some promises are broken due to busyness. At the end of the day, we realize we don't have the time nor the energy to do what we promised at the beginning. Some are broken due to our forgetfulness. Our intentions are good, but our memory is bad. And some are broken because we lack the character to keep them. We said what was needed in order to get what we wanted.
God has made promises.
When the people of Israel were in captivity to Pharaoh, they were greatly afflicted (Exodus 3:7). Their oppressors were harsh, unrelenting, giving them no rest from their increasing burdens. Their suffering broke their spirit to the point that they couldn't believe the good news of a coming deliverance (6:9).
But God heard their groaning and saw their pain; He "knew" them intimately (2:24-25). All of God's energy, compassion, and love was being stirred within Him. So God said, "I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt" (3:17). He is personally going to get involved in the lives of His people as their God (6:7).
WHY? Is He being moved strictly by their present circumstances? No. While God is making a promise, He is also keeping a promise He made centuries before to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (2:24; 6:3-4).
"I have REMEMBERED my covenant" (6:5, emphasis mine).
Today, as He did yesterday and will tomorrow, God preeminently rules and reigns, works and orchestrates, on the basis of an ETERNAL covenant made not between God and man, but between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – the Triune God.
"you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown BEFORE the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God." (1 Peter 1:18-21, emphasis mine)
Dear Christian, the plan of our salvation, the design of our rescue, the good news of our redemption is rooted in a covenant, an agreement, established long before the world was formed and man was created. Before the earth revolved around the sun, the purposes of God revolved around the cross.
As a result, the present and future promises of God for our lives that we hold to in His Word are finally not dependent on God's faithfulness to us, but on God's faithfulness to Himself.
Take hope! Don't worry! God cannot deny Himself (2 Timothy 2:13). He cannot forget or break His eternal covenant for our eternal redemption and life, a covenant which we had nothing to do with! He is not too busy. He is not forgetful. He does not lack integrity.
"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).
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