God’s Promises
3 Things God Never Promised
In
Scripture, God makes a lot of promises.
He keeps
them all, but there are a few things He never promised that might surprise you.
Here are
three; can you think of others?
Justice on earth
God keeps
score.
He promises to heal the wounded, reward the
faithful, and punish the wicked (2 Corinthians 5:10).
But He does not promise to do any of that until
after heaven and earth are remade without the curse of sin.
He promises justice. He does not promise swift
justice.
God is patient with us all (2 Peter 3:9).
That is a great comfort until we realize that He is
also patient with those who harm, oppress, and offend us.
Scripture never gives permission for us to enforce
our own interpretation of justice (Romans 12:9).
Instead, we are told to wait on God’s perfect plan
to be carried out on His perfect time (Psalm 37:7).
Comfort
Many
television preachers have built a personal empire on the false promise that
obeying God will lead to material prosperity and success.
But God never promised His followers an easy life.
In fact, he warned us to expect the opposite (John 16:33) -hardship and persecution from the world, and even
correction from His own hand (Hebrews 12:7).
The Christian life is not a comfortable life, but
it is a fulfilling one.
Instant change
I love
hearing stories of miraculous life transformation.
They fuel my faith in the transformative power of
God’s Word more than anything else.
But they also plant a desire for the same sort of
instant change in my own life.
Yet still I still wrestle with entrenched habits
and besetting sins (Hebrews 12:1).
Much as I love to see instant change in others, and
long to experience it myself, I must remember that God has promised to change
me, but has not promised to do it instantly.
He has promised to complete the transformative work
that He has begun in me (Philippians 1:6), a promise that implies this change is going to
take a while.
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