God keeps His promises.
He is not a man that He should lie or the son of man that He should repent. Has He said and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and He will not make good? (Numbers 23:19)
This passage of scripture is written on the inside cover of my Bible. I put it there. It is a reminder to me that my God will always keep His promises to me.
I was reminded of this earlier this month, as I was driving home from my eldest daughter's home. She has been ill with mono, and was needing my help to move into her new home. Her children, my grand children, were a huge help to her during this time, but I needed to be there. Momma to the rescue. What came to mind that day, as I drove the three hour drive home, was a portion of scripture that God had spoken to my heart many years before. While my man and I lived in Colorado, and my two beautiful daughters lived in Washington state, there was a period of time that my eldest was ill from a food intolerance. She struggled with this for many years. I can remember many a phone conversation with her, and of how I would hang up and cry......and pray. I so wanted to be able to help her, but I was twenty one hours away. I knew that God was there with her......but I am her momma.
My youngest went through a difficult time during this time frame too. She wanted a baby, but that didn't happen for her and her man for eight years. I know, neither one of these issues were life threatening, but hard for them none the less. I just hated that I wasn't there to help them. I hated that I couldn't wrap my arms around them, cry with them, and kiss their "boo-boos" away. It was after one of these phone conversations that God led me to a portion of Isaiah 60.....your daughters shall be nursed at your side....I can remember reading this verse, wondering if it truly would happen, would we ever be able to live closer to each other again? I missed my girls so much.
This is what the Lord reminded me of.....Because here I am, living three hours from my girls, able to make the drive to help out if needed.
But this is not the only promise that God has kept. He has kept His promise of help, and guidance, and grace. The promise of the Holy Spirit's help and teaching each and every day of my life, the promise of His mercies that are new each morning. The promise of protection, and of my daily needs being met.
I will end this with one of my all time favorite passages of scripture, and yes, it too is a promise to me.
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32)
