I Promise to... Because I said I would.

I Promise to… Because I said I Would.

There is no true number; the number of promises that are in the Bible that God has made to us.  Some say 3,000 plus, while another says 5,000 plus and another even guestimated it to be around 7,000 or more.  I have come to understand that nothing of God’s can be numbered – why do we even try?  The promises of God sprout other promises, so the number, as God is – will be infinite, no matter how much we attempt to embellish or winnow the actual figure up or down.

Speaking of promises…  those blessings spoken in time by God, that are already in place for those of us who choose to seek after God to receive them.  An inheritance doesn't do a homeless person any good unless they are aware that they are an heir.  A person could be living poor but rich in another space/time/continuum.  God already promised that we are heirs to his Kingdom, and all that entails.

There are corporate blessings that God spoke to his people and then there are those personalized, bespoke and birthed into our spirits by the Father that is only for us.  When God spoke to Abraham and told him of the promise of a child from his loin; that was for Abraham alone to bear.  Abraham had to believe that God would do it, from the inception to birth, and it was done for Abraham’s blessing and to God’s glory. 

Then God did something shocking to any on-looker, he asked Abraham to give up, relinquish, the very blessing he had been waiting years for, that one thing, the thing that he loved.  God knew what Isaac meant to Abraham.  God knows what both you and I love and are waiting on.  What if he told you to give it up, could you do it? 

The promises of God are Yea and Amen and there are many.  But, it’s that one, that very special one.  That one career, that one love, that one marriage, that one child, that one business, that one dream, that one thing that you have a myopic scope on that wonders whether or not God is actually setting us up for failure instead of success, that tends to make our journey more arduous than it has to be.

Out of all the promises that God made to us, that one, that very one we love is a struggle to give up or hold on to; we cannot make up our minds; either in theory or in reality, to believe or doubt.  We have to go up the mountain with all faith to worship God and that we will descend with the promise in-hand and with even a greater praise than the original ascent. 

Doors and windows open on our behalf; rams are found in the bush, because God saw our faithfulness at taking him at his word, because he said it would be so.