itsawonderfilledlife

Week 2
The Promise of the Prophets

So God has given both his promise and his oath.
These two things are unchangeable
because it is impossible for God to lie.
Therefore,
we who have fled to him for refuge can have
great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us.
This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls.

– Hebrews 6:18-19

As we open the doors of advent we cannot omit the promises of God to us all … promises made hundreds of years before his promises were fulfilled in the person of Jesus. And the greatest of his promises was that he would send a Savior.

Before we get into the promises, we need to be assured of our confidence in the one who is making the promises.

I love the passage (above) from Hebrews 6, because it is not definitive about how God’s promises are trustworthy, that he cannot lie, cannot change what he says.

In this world we live, so obviously infested with sin and it’s effects, it is hard to find anyone who is unswerving in their promises. Marriages, friendships, workplaces and even in the church, promises get broken … to people who are broken … by people who are equally broken.

But God …

He does not break his promises. He can be trusted.

In verse 19 of the passage is this line:

This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls.

Man … the symbolism of an anchor … I can visualize being on rough water and throwing it into the raging seas to hold the boat steady. And that is what God can be in our lives …

but,

an anchor can also be dropped into calm waters, when we want to stay in one place, so as to ensure that we are not deceived by the calm (and we can be so easily deceived by the calm).

God’s promises are our hope, for he is trustworthy!

What a hope is He!