Deuteronomy 7:8-16
How many times a person promised something to you and he or she failed to fulfill it?
Do not fret or get angry at the person. It’s just that human beings fail. We tend to forget what we promise because we are humans. We are never perfect, we are too far from that.
Yet, God promised to fulfill whatever He has promised to do with us because He will do what seemeth good to us. It is the everlasting promise of God to do the best in our lives. It is a promise of the future, a bright one and far brighter when we are in heaven.
But God laid down the condition of this promise. He just wanted us to do His commandments, His will, His very desire for our lives. If we do these things, surely God will bless and will fulfill whatever He planned for our lives.
The thing is: God’s promise may tarry, but it shall be fulfilled. We read that if it tarries, it will not tarry long for it to be fulfilled. While waiting for the wondrous work of the Lord, let us to labor and do His blessed will with the eternal hope that our God is not slack concerning His promises, but He is faithful to do what He has committed to us unto that day.
8 But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lordbrought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations
10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them
12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
15 And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee
16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
How many times a person promised something to you and he or she failed to fulfill it?
Do not fret or get angry at the person. It’s just that human beings fail. We tend to forget what we promise because we are humans. We are never perfect, we are too far from that.
Yet, God promised to fulfill whatever He has promised to do with us because He will do what seemeth good to us. It is the everlasting promise of God to do the best in our lives. It is a promise of the future, a bright one and far brighter when we are in heaven.
But God laid down the condition of this promise. He just wanted us to do His commandments, His will, His very desire for our lives. If we do these things, surely God will bless and will fulfill whatever He planned for our lives.
The thing is: God’s promise may tarry, but it shall be fulfilled. We read that if it tarries, it will not tarry long for it to be fulfilled. While waiting for the wondrous work of the Lord, let us to labor and do His blessed will with the eternal hope that our God is not slack concerning His promises, but He is faithful to do what He has committed to us unto that day.
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