Trusting in the Promise
Trusting in the Promise
Psalm 106:6-12; Jeremiah 40:1-41:18; Philemon 1:1-11
Do you truly trust the promise? What I am asking is, do you truly and honestly trust the promise of given to us through Abraham and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ? Many of us as Christians say it with our mouths, but don’t truly believe it in our hearts. The promise is something that we can live in and walk in constantly, but as we read through the Bible, as we read through the love story of God, we hear the tale of how God has been true to His people, us, but we have been unfaithful.
Throughout the Old Testament we find that God is continually trying to redeem His creation. God makes a promise to Noah that the great flood will never happen; God makes the promise to Abraham, Genesis 18:18, that he will be a blessing to ALL nations. God then fulfills that promise in Jesus Christ. The gift of Christ’s blood is the fulfillment of that blessing or that promise. God’s love is the only unconditional love that we can all rely upon. It is that love that cleans away all the mud that covers our lives that mud and dirt and grime called sin, through Jesus that can all be washed away.
When you are baptized you can enter into the promise. In baptism you are adopted into God’s family, baptized into the promise of Jesus Christ. We celebrate that fact each and every time that we come together in celebration of another’s baptism and in celebrations that help us to remember our baptisms. Then throughout our days we can walk always remembering that promise, remembering our baptism. When we become dirty in sin, we can wash it all away in our honoring of our baptism. We can give it all up to Jesus Christ when we confess all of it to our Lord, holding nothing back, no worries. Nothing is too great when you look through the history has there been any time that God has not kept His promises? No! Not once has He forgotten His promise, though we constantly forget ours. We can trust in that promise because our God is a God of Truth. Our God is not wood, stone, or metal, our God is the one and only Creator and the only God that can keep His promises.
Psalm 106:6-12; Jeremiah 40:1-41:18; Philemon 1:1-11
Do you truly trust the promise? What I am asking is, do you truly and honestly trust the promise of given to us through Abraham and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ? Many of us as Christians say it with our mouths, but don’t truly believe it in our hearts. The promise is something that we can live in and walk in constantly, but as we read through the Bible, as we read through the love story of God, we hear the tale of how God has been true to His people, us, but we have been unfaithful.
Throughout the Old Testament we find that God is continually trying to redeem His creation. God makes a promise to Noah that the great flood will never happen; God makes the promise to Abraham, Genesis 18:18, that he will be a blessing to ALL nations. God then fulfills that promise in Jesus Christ. The gift of Christ’s blood is the fulfillment of that blessing or that promise. God’s love is the only unconditional love that we can all rely upon. It is that love that cleans away all the mud that covers our lives that mud and dirt and grime called sin, through Jesus that can all be washed away.
When you are baptized you can enter into the promise. In baptism you are adopted into God’s family, baptized into the promise of Jesus Christ. We celebrate that fact each and every time that we come together in celebration of another’s baptism and in celebrations that help us to remember our baptisms. Then throughout our days we can walk always remembering that promise, remembering our baptism. When we become dirty in sin, we can wash it all away in our honoring of our baptism. We can give it all up to Jesus Christ when we confess all of it to our Lord, holding nothing back, no worries. Nothing is too great when you look through the history has there been any time that God has not kept His promises? No! Not once has He forgotten His promise, though we constantly forget ours. We can trust in that promise because our God is a God of Truth. Our God is not wood, stone, or metal, our God is the one and only Creator and the only God that can keep His promises.
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