Insightful, Biblical Devotions
“For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself” (Heb. 6:13).
God gave Abraham a promise, and when God gives a promise, He is going to fulfill it. For men swear by one greater than themselves – God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind (Heb. 6 :17). That’s why when God makes a promise, we have the right to expect and anticipate and risk everything on His promise and His oath to keep His promise. Otherwise, He is changing, untrustworthy, unreliable and you will never know where you stand.
But He says what I want you to see is this, when you come to God, you must believe Him. And He has made a very simple promise, He said later in Heb. 11:6 that, without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
If God is who He says He is, then when He makes a promise, we have the word of the living God. And He says if you ask anything in my name, count on me as done. Think about this, it’s out of God’s character not to keep His promise. Let me tell you why He can’t fail you. The very nature of God, the very essence of God, is truthfulness, He has to keep His word. “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good”? (Num. 23:19).
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