As Good As His Word
For no matter how many
promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the
“Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.
2Corinthians 1:20
“God told me I’d meet
my wife when I transferred to Lee University,” Josh told the group attending
the training seminar. “But when I finished my junior year and still hadn’t met
someone I began to wonder… ‘Was I mistaken? Hadn’t God promised me a wife?”
He shook his head, “By the end of my senior year I hadn’t
had a single date! I’d been so sure Mrs. Holland would have appeared by now.
But she was a no-show. I returned home puzzled.”
“Reflecting on my time at Lee I realized I had met a girl in my first year at Lee…we
had become friends… But she was with
someone else. So she couldn’t have been the one… could she? We kept in touch
after graduation, and I found out she broke it off with the other guy. We talked
on the phone every so often, then a couple times a week, and eventually every
day. Ultimately, we got married. So…God hadn’t reneged on His promise; He just
said I’d meet my wife at Lee. He didn’t say we’d get married there. It’s funny
how we hear God say something and immediately form our own version of how that
is supposed to look.”
†
Josh never questioned God’s promise, yet at the end of his
tenure at Lee he was puzzled. Had God actually spoken the promise? Or, had he imagined
the whole thing?
It’s a natural response that when God’s promise doesn’t come
to fruition immediately we begin to doubt that we ever heard His voice.
Only faith or prior experience with having waited on the fulfillment
of one of God’s promises can silence our suspicious heart.
Scripture tells us that our promises come through Christ,
and our faith says ‘let it be so’. When we hear from God we can be sure that
what He has spoken will come to pass. He is as good as His word; His word just
might look a little different than what we were expecting. So keep an open
mind…and hold fast to what God told you.
Prayer
“Give me the faith to
hold onto your promise, Lord, no matter how long it takes. In Jesus’ Name,
amen.”
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