Promise Keeper
Growing up, I cannot remember my parents breaking promises they made to me. Neither can I remember them making that many promises. How was it for you growing up?
The hardest promises to keep are those we make to ourselves. I will do this or that, only to end up not doing what we tell ourselves we will do. The Apostle Paul understands how that works very well. In the Book of Romans Paul says that what I want to do, I do not do, and what I don’t want to do, I do. Not doing what we promise ourselves we will do or not do breaks down trust in ourselves. Can we even trust ourselves?
There is One whom we can trust to keep every promise He has ever made, God. God told Pharaoh He was going to send plagues, and He did. God told the Israelites to put the blood of a lamb over their doors and the death angel would pass over them, and it did. God told Noah to build an Ark, he trusted God, built it, and God sent the flood.
Here is a promise God makes to us that we struggle to believe. The promise to forgive and forget our sins. The sins we struggle to forget are the very ones God does not remember. God promises, then keeps every promise because He is God. There is none like Him!
“For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” Hebrews 8:12 NIV
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