His Promise
I
have walked through life after a great promise God has given me with hope and
sorrow in my heart. Hope for the things to come, sorrow because it did not yet manifest.
God has a way of preparing us for the destiny he has for us. From our mother’s
wombs we cried out in freedom and pain. Nothing new in life is ever easy for us
to go through. Have you noticed that the same birthing process follows us
through our life cycles? We are freed in one area in life and in pain in the
other.
For
so many years, I thought the worst of myself. Seeing every stumble and every
mistake I have made. I believed I messed up and that God was shaking his head
looking upon his unruly daughter. I forgot that his word says there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus.
I forgot that his grace is sufficient to cover every mistake and every sin. We
aren’t perfect. We are merely clay in the master’s hands. He is shaping us and
shaping isn’t always pretty. Take a second and imagine a sculptor at work. They
start with a blob of clay and they began to shape it and scrape at it. They
shave away unneeded pieces and add to lacking ones. This is what God does to us
every day of our lives. He shapes us and stripes us and adds to us. We are
often naked before God and he loves us still. I know all of you have been hurt;
some more than others and it’s kept you out of the throne room because you
believe that God doesn’t want to look upon the scars and the stains upon your
life. But you forget that every day he sees his son, the wounds in his hands, feet
and side. This is a testament to the sacrifice Jesus made for all of us. His
wounds cover your own. What God sees when you enter his throne room is his
beloved child.
No
matter how messed up we are or how many mistakes we make along the journey, God’s
promise is sound. The word says that God
is not a man that he should lie and that his word cannot return unto him void. Both statements mean no
matter what is going on in your life that God will do what he said he will do.
This word is for me as much as it is for you. I have been waiting over a year
for one of God’s promises to me to come to fruition. I have cried, prayed,
fasted and waited. It is the hardest thing to wait on God. I know many of you
must have felt what I felt, that maybe you heard wrong. You might have thought
that God had changed his mind because you didn’t get yourself together fast
enough. Those are all lies. God’s promise does not lay on the backs of our
actions! God’s promise is held up by who he is. He is Alpha and Omega; he is
the Great I Am! God is ready to pour out a blessing that supersedes anything you
can imagine. When the promise God has given you comes to past, no words but the
utterance of praise will leave your lips.
God says, “His promise will change your life
forever that everything you thought you wanted won’t compare to what he will
give you.” God says, “If a man can keep his word, how much more will I? You did
not mistake me, you did not mishear me! I Will Do As I Promised!”
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