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.
2 Corinthians 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 time 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.
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 said.
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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